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25 Albums Every Christian Should Hear (New Survey)

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Mackelemore: Same Love

For the two and a half people in the world who have yet to see this amazing video by Macklemore, watch it NOW. It’s a great example of normalizing different expressions of love, and is also an illustration I use to point to an inspired “third way” to engage injustice, with the hope of Thy [Read More...]

Problems with Christian Contemporary Music: An Interview with Trey Pearson of ‘Everyday Sunday’

Trey Pearson, front man and creative mind behind the band, Everyday Sunday, is in many ways the picture of a successful Contemporary Christian Music artist. He’s toured the world, played to thousands of fans at a time and sold hundreds of thousands of records. So I was intrigued when I sat down with him at [Read More...]

Diverse But Not Integrated: Religion’s Race Problem

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King immortalized many phrases still used in the contemporary American lexicon. But it was on Dec. 17, 1963 in a talk at Western Michigan University when he noted that the “most segregated hour in this nation” is 11 a.m. on Sunday. Though many of King’s other famous quotes come from scripted [Read More...]

25 More Christian Blogs You Should Be Reading (Editor’s Picks, 2013)

I’ve agonized quite a bit while assembling this list. As is the case with anything like this, some great resources and people will be left out. Still, as I reflect on the 25 voices I’ve collected here, I’d argue it’s one amazing roster of practitioners, thinkers, writers and artists. In order to help winnow this [Read More...]

25 Christian Blogs You Should Be Reading (Readers’ Choice, 2013)

After more than 33,000 hits, 400 nominations and thousands of votes, we have the Reader’s Choice list of 25 Christian Blogs You Should Be reading. I was particularly pleased to see so many women represented in the list this year. Could be much more culturally diverse, but with respect to gender and theological views, it [Read More...]

I’m Awesomely Humble!

This reflection is part of a larger weekly lectionary study, called Heretic’s Guide to the Bible.  Click the link or the banners above or below to learn more. Amy once offered a sermon on humility at our former Church in Colorado. One guy, who I’ll call Hector, always had something interesting to say in response [Read More...]

Everyday Sunday, Breaking Bad, Drunk History and Hot Toddlers (HB CultureCast)

This week, we’re featuring an interview that Christian did with Trey Pearson, front man for the band, Everyday Sunday. Trey and Christian chatted it up at the recent Wild Goose Festival, talking mainly about why a guy who has sold hundreds of thousands of records and landed scads of number-one songs within the Contemporary Christian [Read More...]

Church Sign Epic Fails, “Eat Your Pastor” Edition

I once had a congregant tell me to take their pastor with a grain of salt…and then he handed me some cayenne and barbecue sauce. Awkward!

Why the Christian Blog Survey is Freaking Me Out

Last year, I posted an article listing 25 Christian Blogs people should be reading. It actually was a repost from Matthew Paul Turner, which I put on my blog without edits for two reasons: 1. I’m lazy and the list was good, and; 2. I’m a narcissist and I was on his list Since then, [Read More...]