10. Teach them every human being has unsurpassable worth. Â A nonviolent ethic of love begins right here, and nowhere else. Jesus followers embrace nonviolent
The Old Testament is tricky ground. It always has been. In it, you will find something that’s often referred to as “The Law” (insert
I’ve been spending a lot of my summer this year sitting by the ocean and reading. My favorite book of the year, by far,
This post is part 2 of a series of an interview with trafficking survivor, Meg Munoz. In this post, I’ve asked her if she’d share
Passionate about the cause of ending trafficking? Great- I am a trafficking survivor and here’s what I want to tell Christian activists:
I’m not going to lie, what I just read is the dumbest thing I’ve read in my life. I’m not trying to be overly
Over the last 24 hours, the internet has been in uproar over the death of a creature named Cecil The Lion. I hadn’t heard
“But I believe the WHOLE Bible.” It’s a very common phrase I hear in Christian circles. In the course of teaching others to live
Yesterday NASA made the announcement that they finally discovered something many have pondered: the existence of an Earth-like planet. The above illustration shows Kepler 452b,
Culture has a tendency to quietly whisper in our ear that independence is a beautiful thing– but we were made for so much more than being
While the word “Christianity” ought refer to a single religion, the reality is that many cultures have succumbed to a process of syncretism where there
In recent months Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, has been in a downward spiral that continually seems to generate a lot of buzz
If I were a betting man, I’d bet that this week your social newsfeeds has been full of stories regarding the now infamous Planned Parenthood
A reader recently asked how we- the people of Jesus- ought to approach the celebration of America’s independence on the 4th of July. This
Moments ago the US Supreme Court announced that marriage equality is now the law of the land. As our LGBTQ brothers and sisters celebrate civil
In the wake of the racist massacre in South Carolina, many in Americanized Christianity are calling on churches and pastors to begin arming themselves
How many will it take? Is this seriously the kind of country you want to live in?
While Christian community ought be the safest place for one to run and hide, it’s often a place where we experience some of the most painful wounds.
When I’ve written about Calvinism I’ve not infrequently heard “that’s just a caricature of Calvinism,” or that I don’t understand what Calvinism actually teaches
This isn’t a post about theology, Christian culture, or any of the other things I typically write about. Yes, this is a post about the
2000 years ago a group of folks in the first century had the opportunity to sit at the base of a hill and hear Jesus’s
(This post is my continuing dialogue with the ideas of Jeff Cook,  from his new book, Everything New: Reimagining Heaven and Hell.) … A.W Tozer once wrote that,
Over the course of the past year I’ve had an ongoing series introducing readers to what I call the “biblical alternative to hell,” which
On a daily basis I interact with readers who come from nearly every location on the faith continuum. Many are either disenchanted, burned out, or aren’t
Yesterday various media outlets broke the story that Josh Duggar, eldest son on the show 19 Kids And Counting, had sexually abused multiple girls.
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BLC is an author, speaker, scholar, and global traveler, who holds graduate degrees in Theology & Intercultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and received his doctorate in Intercultural Studies from Fuller. He is the author of Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus, and Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith.
BLC
BLC is a cultural anthropologist, public theologian, writer, speaker, global traveler, and tattoo collector. He is a two-time graduate of Gordon-Conwell with graduate degrees in Theology & Intercultural Studies, and went on to receive his doctorate in Intercultural Studies from Fuller. He is the author of Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith, and Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus. In addition to his blog, Formerly Fundie, his work has been regularly featured by a wide array of media outlets such as TIME magazine and CNN, among others.
BLC
BLC is a cultural anthropologist, public theologian, writer, speaker, global traveler, and tattoo collector. He is a two-time graduate of Gordon-Conwell with graduate degrees in Theology & Intercultural Studies, and went on to receive his doctorate in Intercultural Studies from Fuller. He is the author of Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith, and Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus. In addition to his blog, Formerly Fundie, his work has been regularly featured by a wide array of media outlets such as TIME magazine and CNN, among others.
