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This Wednesday night, my church will gather together for our annual Christmas Eve service.

I'm hoping my favorite Christmas hymn will make the cut this year - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. O Holy Night gives...

(Credit: Boris Kasimov, Flickr Creative Commons) I don't care who you are. If you were a American Christian teenager in the 90s, you loved DC Talk. Don't even pretend like you didn't. Even if you went to one of those fundamentalist churches...

"Pastor" Steven Anderson has a long, long history of saying awful and sometimes insane things from the pulpit. In his latest abomination, Anderson preaches on the "need" for every Christian to own a weapon. [video file="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD9oiT5qaEM" width="520" height="355"] Now, let me be clear: I'm not anti-gun. I've been hunting and I've been to...

A couple of years ago I wrote a post on what I called "the zombification of America."

It was about how we strip our enemies of their humanity in order to feel justified treating them...

Every once in a while I stumble down an internet rabbit hole. Usually, it ends up just being a giant waste of time that I'll never get back (even though it may have seemed profoundly entertaining at the time). But sometimes the journey through the rabbit hole leads to something worthwhile. Such...

(Credit: Paul Williams, Flickr Creative Commons) It's been 3 years since John Piper infamously bid farewell to Rob Bell and, to his credit (I suppose?), he hasn't had much - if anything - to say about Rob since them. At least...

I don't know that you can find a more American Jesus nativity set than this one. It's cheap, tacky, poorly constructed, and overly commercialized. [Insert rimshot here]   I have no clue who made it or where it comes from (my friend Diane sent it...

(Credit: Wikipedia) Yesterday marked the first Sunday of Advent. That time of the year when the Church prepares for the coming of God in the most unusual and humble of ways: as a mere baby, whose first bed was a food trough. As much...

It's been a while since I ran two posts in one day, but this one couldn't wait to 'till Monday. According to its Indigogo page, The McMass Project (founded by Paul Di Lucca) wants to combine a church and a McDonald's in order to "create a self-sustaining, community-engaged, popular church,...