• Is God All Up In Our Business?

    Is God All Up In Our Business?

    When you have a person in your office hysterical because their son completed suicide and they are worried about where they’re going or the most pious lifelong Christian worries on his deathbed that he hasn’t done enough to please God or some of the most generous people you’ve met in your life can’t have a…

  • Dude, Where’s My God?

    Dude, Where’s My God?

    It is far easier to find God at work in our history than in our present. There God is all pulling the strings and making things happen. Here? Well, that depends on your theological proclivities. Our theologies have grown out of problems and the choices we make in response to them. Much like we’re doing…

  • How Has God Been Active in the World?

    How Has God Been Active in the World?

    If we want to know who God is, one important place to go is to look at who God has been. Much like we think back on our childhood and reflect on our sibling relationships and how our parents treated us. Looking back is an important window at understanding who we are now. Of all…

  • What Does God Think Of Creation: “Total Garbage” Or “Love It”?

    What Does God Think Of Creation: “Total Garbage” Or “Love It”?

    Depending on who you talk to, creation is either total garbage or the blessing of God, what God called good throughout creation. What does God think of creation? Well, that probably depends on what you think God is up to. Part of the problem is many Christians see creation as being two worlds. The world…

  • That God, What’s the Deal?

    That God, What’s the Deal?

    I’ve studied effectiveness. I read Getting Things Done. Listened to podcasts and read Lifehacker every week. In the last 3 years, I’ve tried 7 different To-Do apps on my phone and gone through just as many calendar and email apps. I’ve been trying to life hack my life to be happier and more productive. Countless changes…

  • Hey God! What Should We Call You?

    Hey God! What Should We Call You?

    Christian faith and scripture presupposes we can talk with God. While this is not consistently applied in tradition, there is an expectation that we can directly address God. Even if that address is through Jesus. From the first humans in the Garden chatting with a god who walked among them to Jacob wrestling with God…

  • Who Is God?

    Who Is God?

    While this is probably the most important question of them all, it is also the one we are least equipped to answer. We’ll try. Oh yes we will. Over and over. From our experience and our learning. From reading scripture and studying the scholars. We all will try to answer that question. But we can’t.…

  • Students of Small Things

    Students of Small Things

    We like things big in the U.S. When I was going to school in Canada, I’d show up with a 44 oz drink from Speedway and my friends and professors would shake their heads. One called it “Texas-sized” which is pretty true. We’re obsessed with big. Which is why we have trouble with Jesus always…