While atheists are still pretty rare in the US, there is now what Keith Matthews in my D.Min. class on Postmodernism called "the new agressive atheism." This is the atheism of people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hawkins, and others.



This Youtube video seeks to tell Christians that if they want to be intelligent people, they must stop believing imaginary things. In fact, their belief in God is dangerous, and religion is a danger in the… Continue

I hardly ever read the same book twice. However, there are a few exceptions. I first read Richard Foster's book Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World about ten years ago. It had a great impact on my life. Now that so much in my life has changed, I've decided to read it again.



I really appreciate Foster's motivation for simplicity: it is not a hollow piety but a desire to make more space for God in our lives and to create more possibilities for serving… Continue

Housing Strangers in MY Home?





Back in 1990 or 1991, I saw the craziest thing while I was washing clothes at the Laundromat. I was a 12 year old boy reading one of the Jack T. Chic tracts that were lying around when a bearded guy wearing “Jesus clothes” walked by carrying a cross made out of pipes. The stranger got my attention, and I just HAD to talk to him. I wanted to know why he was dressed that way, bearing a cross, etc. He was really nice, and wanted to talk to me about… Continue

As a lot of you know, I just took my D.Min. class at Fuller on Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix. For my paper for this class, I'm going to be writing about how the internet will change how we do ministry and outreach, particularly through social networking sites.

In just the last two years, how people use the internet has dramatically changed with the rise of sites like Facebook. Today, people have a very public persona on these sites, giving… Continue