We were away when Jimmy Carter’s oft-repeated idea about women and the Southern Baptists was recirculated in the media: he’s evidently withdrawn from the Southern Baptist Convention over its tightened up restrictions on women and his perception that it has diminished equality of the sexes. He first made waves about this in 2000 and then…

A friend sent this to me … and I think it might come from Jay Leno. Anyway … TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!!  First, we survived being born to mothers who  took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing,  tuna from a can and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma,…

I recently wrote a piece for Neue Quarterly (p. 94 ff) that works out an idea from The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible . And Kyle Strobel interviewed me for his blog, Metamorpha, about Fasting: The Ancient Practices . (Aksel loves my fasting book.)

Andy Stanley contends there is one question that, if we ask it each time we make a decision, it will bring clarity to the important questions and problems and dilemmas in your life. Asking and answering this question could have helped you avoid your biggest regret ever. “You and I have something in common,” Andy…

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