Baby Jesus, but where are his horns?
"But why did those people hurt baby Jesus?" It's a tough question to answer, and I guess that's what I get when I let the Gospel tunes of Johnny Cash…
On your marks…get set…THANKS!
What exactly is "thanks" or "thankfulness"? Is it a feeling, an emotion, a set of actions, or an attitude? These are harder questions to answer than it might at first…
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“Favre” [farv] – noun, from the original French for Judas
Let's be honest, many of our nation's sportswriters probably wrote two versions of their game story last Sunday; one for if he won, another for if he lost? This story…
New Doubts, Bad Jokes and an Old Lesson
The old joke runs like this: "I have friend who used to be a Southern Baptist, but he converted to Unitarianism. So now he has his doubts, but he's very…
WWTD? Have you bought your bracelet yet?
WWTD - What Would Teddy Do? While this question is unlikely to spawn any adolescent evangelical fashion trends, it does have some cache these days. In the wake of the…
Evangelicals in the Echo-Chamber…Chamber…Chamber…Chamber…
My favorite philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce, was fond of reminding his fellows and readers that the world has a way of correcting (sometimes brutally) our false ideas. Misjudge a staircase…
9 Days, 130 Miles, 2 Gun-totin’ Good Ol’ Boys, 1 Clear Insight into Liberal Evangelicalism
Day 2, On the Banks of the Jessup River, 6 miles north of Piseco, NY. I had been making almost record time all day. It was only 3:00 PM and…
“NOT WITH MY MONEY!”: Reflections on why nobody wants to pay for toilet paper
It's truly amazing the trouble a little box can cause. The little box I'm thing looked like this symbol ⌂ and beside it was an innocuous word: outreach. But oh…
Ich bin ein Evangelical…so what should I do?
I spent several eye opening hours in the library this week doing some personal research and tracking down sources for teaching projects. For a while I'd been looking for a…
Unexceptional Christians
After three weeks the raging flames of national pride have finally abated. Not only does life in Quebec deprive the American sojourner of his precious Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi -…