Like an insurgency amid a people we are trying to free, Christmas has decided to go to war with our ideas of Christmas. We are, I’m sad to say, fighting a war on two fronts.
All by Adam Daniels
Did God Give Me COVID?
For the great dis-ease among us and in us may not be the pestilence itself, but the way we react to, ignore, and weaponize the suffering of others.
Christian No More
Oh freedom, how I love thee!
For in your arms I am whole.
The Long, Slow Death of the Christian Peacemaker
As U.S. Christianity becomes increasingly polarized, those in the dip of the canyon between the two sides are being slowly bludgeoned to death by the rocks meant for the other side.
Where Christmas Starts
The first lesson of Christmas is to keep showing up even when your miracle hasn’t.
The Miracle of Gratitude
Ingratitude doesn’t just cause you to miss the miracle; it also takes you further away from all that is good.
How to Get What You Deserve
May we (praise God) not get what we deserve, but something deeper and better and stronger than our best thoughts can grasp.
How (Not) to Lose Your Soul by November
It’s no secret that anger and outrage are the fuel that this particular car needs to get it where it needs to go. The question then becomes, “What does such a trip do to our soul?”
Introducing the What We Really Think It Says Bible (Now in Imitation Leather)
Hello there. Have you ever tried to read the Bible and actually do what is says?
Being Re-Membered
If Holy Thursday teaches us anything, it’s that Jesus is in the business of putting souls back together that have been torn apart by grief and fear.
He Stills Storms Still: A Meditation (Part 3)
Could it be that the real question is not, “Who is this that even the wind and sea obey him?” but rather, “Who is this who sleeps through storms?”
He Stills Storms Still: A Meditation (Part 2)
Jesus’s disciples, when faced with the imminent possibility of death, ask the question of the ages when they ask, “Do you not care that we are perishing?”
He Stills Storms Still: A Meditation (Part 1)
Fear is not the most reliable of counselors. Yet in the face of darkness we all have to come to the terrible truth that monsters are real.
Vulture Brain
There’s something unsettling about vultures. These birds that traffic in death. That subsist off another’s end. That fly circles around the weak and vulnerable, the dying and dead.
A Bigger Tent: The Secret to Church Unity (Part 3)
If we are to be unified in the church, we’ve got to find something bigger to unite around, and the mission of God in the world may be the only thing that fits the bill.
A Bigger Tent: The Secret to Church Unity (Part 2)
Could it be that from this point on, the Christian church should be about movement and the spreading of this tent to the ends of the earth?
A Bigger Tent: The Secret to Church Unity (Part 1)
Acts 15 provides a witness to the 21st century church, revealing a way forward in a religious world that doesn’t notice how big the tent actually is.
Hide and Seek
It’s a strange thing when we put God in the role of the hider and us in the role of the finder. That’s not the biblical story at all.
The Blessing of Blessing
What would it mean if parents, youth leaders, children’s ministers, and whoever else wants to, took seriously the idea of blessing?
Why All Dogs Do Go to Heaven
When I was younger and thought I knew much more than I actually did, I thought it silly when people would talk about animals as if they had a divine spark to them.