Culture
Debunking myths: the church is against science!
If you go back through history, the church and science were at times at odds with one another; those disagreements, however, have been gravely exaggerated. When atheists speak of the church’s persecution of scientists, we hear stories of people being burned at the stake for scientific theories; we hear about Galileo, Copernicus and Giordano Bruno…
Read MoreOf Porn and Prostitutes – an excerpt from Radical Sex
3,000 people have downloaded the Radical Sex book since its release at the end of December 2015. Here is in excerpt from Chapter 3 – Of Porn and Prostitutes. In their book Superfreakonomics, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Steven D. Levitt, and journalist Stephen J. Dubner examine prostitution and point out the…
Read MoreInspired by Walt Disney himself – kind of.
I was sitting in a submarine – the Nautilus – submerged under water. Pitch black. Pale blue light. 20 people crammed in and staring out a small round window at sea life, underwater mines and Nemo. Wait. What? Sorry – I forgot. It was a Disneyland ride. The captain of the submarine came over the…
Read MoreWhat about Evolution? – Pain & Suffering (Part 2)
2015 was a year of a number of tragedies both personally (I lost people I love dearly, and people I know suffered tragedy) and globally. How do we understand the meaning of these events, if there is meaning to them? This is part 1 of a few reflections on the question of pain and suffering…
Read MoreSex Like Rabbits, or Maybe not – a sneak peak at Radical Sex
This is a sneak peak from my free ebook Radical Sex which releases in just a few days! It is a small selection from chapter 1 – The Condom Incident. …. Now before we explore what that looks like, we need to pause and acknowledge that this sex-as-bad theology has all kinds of modern expressions…
Read MoreThe Female Brain – a sneak peak at Radical Sex
This is a sneak peak from my e-book Radical Sex which releases later this month. It is a small selection from chapter 2, entitled Married Sex & Orgasms. The Female Brain …for many men, the context of life is irrelevant when it comes to sexual desire. We can be driving in a car with kids…
Read MoreWhat You Can Learn From ‘The Tipping Point’
I was talking with a friend this week about one of the most talked about water cooler books of the last many years, Malcolm Gladwell’s, The Tipping Point, and was reminded of how good it was and how it helped me when I was planting Village Church. It emphasizes an important basic biblical principle –…
Read MoreThe Irony of Atheism
The problem with blind spots is that we can’t see them. Atheists and agnostics often critique religious people for being ‘narrow-minded,’ and ‘dogmatic’ about things, while failing to realize that in criticizing people for these things, they are themselves being dogmatic (about not being dogmatic!). The problem is that these critics often don’t see the…
Read More3 To Do’s when you’re confused
1999 was a confusing year for me. I started the calendar year thinking film school, started school in a Public Relations degree track at a local college, and by mid-September was studying theology at a school in the city. In college I went from a Youth Ministry major to a passion for scholarship so that…
Read MoreChristians who don’t read.
“But we have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:16) The Scandal One of the great scandals of modern Christianity, as others have pointed out, is Christians without Christian minds. Followers of Jesus who don’t think Christianly about the world, life, God, issues. They may worship and pray as Christians, but they do not think…
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