“If I hear one more sermon on love I think I am going to explode!”

  That sentence was shared with me by a parishioner in a coffee shop in Nashville when the church I was working for was enduring a rough patch. Two distinct groups emerged and I will spare you the reasons we were divisive about, because if I share them it might make you leave the church or hate Jesus …

Book Review: The Next Christians by Gabe Lyons

This book took longer than it should to finish but with each passing page I felt my life and vocation was under permanent construction.  Books that say the same thing about Christianity bore me as those are a dime a dozen.  Books that afford all of the answers and develop a formula for the world's …

Breaks, birthdays and Bin laden

So it has been almost a month since my last post and since I used Facebook and I must say that I actually feel great. I activated Facebook and discovered I had missed some things but overall I really was ok. I am not sure how mug facebooking I will do but it will not …

Teaching Youth Responsibly About World Religions

A lot on my mind today for a number of different reasons so I will try to keep this post near 1000 words ;).  I read the Tennessean this morning and saw that a "pastor" in Gainesville, Florida has plans to burn 200 copies of the Koran (Quran) on September 11 to memorialize what happened …

MLK, Jr. and the Churches of Christ

Growing up MLK, Jr. was (and is) my hero.  He was not perfect (find me someone who was) and had his share of flaws but led a revolution in one of the most turbulent times in America's history.  I am writing my final graduate paper (and the church says?  AMEN!) for my African-America Church History and …

“Real Christians are Republicans!”

I do not know why I am writing this and I am sure most of you are only reading this because of the title.  I actually, when I was in undergrad at Freed-Hardeman, heard a fellow student say those words: "Robbie, real Christians are republicans."  I thought to myself, "Funny, I thought real Christians, are …