Let People Be Complicated
A few years ago, my wife and I attended a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute concert. It was pure fun. The band was good. The crowd was lively. And when the opening chords of Sweet Home Alabama…
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Don’t Be Boring
Are you spiritually boring? Am I? The older I get, the easier it is to become boring. One year I’m bushwhacking my way through the rainforest with a machete, but in the blink of an…
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Curated Certainty
I spoke at an event last month and found myself ranting about certainty. Not conviction. Not confidence. Certainty. Churches have it. Denominations have it. Theologies have it. We all seem to have a system that…
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Help My Unbelief
If you asked me to choose one passage that best captures the strange relationship between faith and doubt, I’d probably land on Mark 9:24: “I believe; help my unbelief.” That may be the most honest…
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The Centurion
My recent posts have focused on doubt. Not because I’m pro-doubt, but because I think we have become uncomfortable with honest questions. We’ve created cultures where uncertainty feels dangerous, so people hide it. That’s unhealthy….
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Doubting Saints
Last week I wrote about doubt. It’s worth looking at a few biblical examples because, frankly, a lot of bible characters were not exactly poster children for emotional consistency. And maybe that’s good news. The…
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Tear It Down. Build It Back.
You might have heard the term “deconstructionists” used to describe people wrestling with their Christian faith. I don’t know about you, but I’m surrounded by them. And I love the hard questions they’re asking. At…
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Leave. Now.
We like our Jesus stories tidy. Especially the Christmas stories. You know the routine: angel, stable, manger, wise men, then fade to Silent Night by candlelight. But after Christmas, the story swerves. There’s a dream. A warning….
