Think Christian columns

I write regularly for Think Christian, "a collaborative digital magazine that recognizes contemporary culture--from politics to the arts, from business to science--as falling beneath God's sovereignty. We engage this God-owned, human-driven world by discussing what it means to live as a Christian within it." You can link to past columns that I've written here. 

Stephen Colbert's Witness

Jim Carrey and the Need for Living Color

The Fairy-Tale Gospel of Tolkien's Beren and Luthien

Hearing Romans 7 in Kendrick Lamar's DAMN

What Transhumanism Misunderstands about Being Human

How Should Christians Navigate the Gender Revolution?

If Trump Does 'Destroy' the Johnson Amendment, Churches Won't Benefit

Marriage: The Christian Version of "Yes Means Yes"

How Christian Intellectuals Can Get Their Groove Back

White parents and Black Lives Matter

Should legal marijuana be met with theology or fear?

A deeper dive into Pope Francis' Amoris Laetitia

Are churches willing to have the gay conversation?

The Importance of Being Human

Watching Survivor during Lent

The continued shame of college sports

Advent and lament

How Christians can lead the way on maternity leave

Duke students, trigger warnings, and cultural engagement

Sharing the good news amidst Tinder's 'dating apocalypse'

Humbled by Pluto

A New Way to Marry

How science and reason created an age of unbelief--in science and reason

How marriage can still "work"

Is it a good thing that Jon Stewart's minions are multiplying?

Rob Bell and Oprah aside, marriage wasn't designed to solve loneliness

The problem with Obama's Crusades comments

Why I'm not surprised Ryan Bell turned atheist after his year without God

For Christians, there is no torture debate

Egg freezing and the facts of life

Christmastime's generic call to "believe"

Brittany Maynard and 9/11 jumpers: an analogy that doesn't work

Obama, Phil Robertson and how we talk about the militants of ISIS

Is civilization natural? A Christian answer

Jim Gaffigan and the food purity movement

Free-range kids and resurrection parenting

Botched executions and the blood of Christ

Actually, guns do kill people

Christian hospitality and the sharing economy

Pre-game prayers: worship, witness, or showing off?

The fall of Fallujah and the city of God

Snowplows, politics, and Christian persistence

We're no longer number one! We're no longer number one!

Cohabitation, 'conscious uncoupling,' and Christian marriage

Detroit's urban forest and giving way to the garden

Why contraception matters, even for Protestants

The horror of war & the comfort of hell

How the Cosmos reboot allows for religion

Why your friends' marriage is your business

Letting go of Jahi McMath

Duck Dynasty and the Gospel of Entertainment

Amazon and delivering on the Lord's Day

I'm NOT dreaming of a white Jesus

St. Augustine on breastfeeding

Four views on James Brownson's Bible, Gender, Sexuality

Why not having kids is more than a lifestyle choice

What Britain's impending porn ban won't do

Is atheism a religion? Not nearly as much as the Super Bowl

A Christian Case for Atheist Chaplains

Louie Giglio, Obama's inauguration, and playing the persecution card

Believing in baseball (and Easter)

Jim Halpert's model of male headship

Why I'm not voting

ESPN's surprisingly civil debate about sin and homosexuality

The weakness of the Pentagon and the power of the cross

Action, orientation, and sexuality

Why Obama is like Bush (and both are like Pilate)

Human extinction and Christian eschatology

Why eating at Chick-fil-A isn't the same as taking communion

Who cares if Denzel Washington is a Christian?

Why we shouldn't be so quick to set sail with Rob Bell

Medical marijuana and a theology of pot

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