• Algorithmic Love

    Algorithmic Love

    Algorithms claim to help us engage with what we love but often create a self-reinforcing feedback loop instead.

  • You Never Let Me

    You Never Let Me

    Episode 70 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Wading through grace

    Wading through grace

    This one verse, John 3:16, is treated like an evangelism tool. The whole experience is of a verse taken completely out of context.

  • God is Love—for Lent 4B

    God is Love—for Lent 4B

    What it means to love, to offer ourselves, to give and become different, is much bigger than any slogan we can come up with.

  • Evangelism is more than Bible verses

    Evangelism is more than Bible verses

    The idea of putting a verse’s notation out into the world, hoping someone will open a Bible and be converted to Christ is just weird.

  • Between the Third and Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year B)

    Between the Third and Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year B)

    Before we can jump into John 3:16 and God’s love for the world, we should take a minute to talk about Jesus’s visit with Nicodemus.

  • A Messy Temple

    A Messy Temple

    In all of the order of the Temple, we struggle to see the mess underneath; why things need to change; and even what to do about it.

  • Not everyone believes what they say

    Not everyone believes what they say

    In civil debate, we worry about not taking the other person seriously enough. But sometimes they use that generosity against us.