Sophia’s Back
Don’t say, “Oh, poor Sophia!” She doesn’t need anyone’s pity. She one strong female. These are battle scars from a personal war she’s won. She’s liberated and liberal. She boasts about her wounds. She uses her tender but tough heart, her smart and sharp mind, and her...
my deconstruction of Mark Driscoll’s tweet about Obama
This got tons of attention of the internet when I posted it yesterday. And the reactions were sometimes fierce. So I thought I'd post it here if you wanted to make any comments. I know some of you were directly under MD's ministry.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 2013
Well, a few of our members have asked that I post my cartoons and posts that I post on nakedpastor here as well. I assumed, without really thinking about it, that TLS members could check out the nakedpastor site for the cartoons and that I would post other stuff for...
podcast “SAMPLES: Don’t Let Anyone”
Here's today's podcast, inspired by Colossians 2. I'm calling these series "Samples", after the food theme of The Lasting Supper. Today's is titled, "Don't Let Anyone". It's just 15 minutes long. CLICK HERE -->SAMPLES: "Don't Let Anyone"
my “z-theory” in one page
(I'm sending this out as my Sunday lap-letter today, but I thought I'd also post it here for your convenience. I just wanted to preface it to you TLS members that this dream ended almost 30 years of theological and intellectual anxiety for me and brought a lasting...
Exercise: Anne Lamott’s “Help. Thanks. Wow.”
Lisa and I read one of our favorite authors, Anne Lamott's new book, "Help. Thanks. Wow. The Three Essential Prayers." Here's a paragraph from her preface that I think you'll appreciate: You may in fact be wondering what I even mean when I use the word "prayer". It's...
in darkness and storm
Would you like a free high-resolution print-ready download of this image? Use good quality matte paper (Staples' printable both sides photo matte paper): CLICK HERE (I got a lot of positive comments from this painting I posted the other day. The original sold within...
now that you can think freely
Now that you can think freely (actually, you always could, but now you finally realize you can because you've already suffered the ramifications of independent thinking), I would like to propose an experiment. The more brutally honest you are about the sufferings you...
freedom isn’t a bigger cage
Hagere and I were chatting yesterday about one of our favorite philosophers, Slavoj Žižek, and it reminded me of this post I wrote some time ago. We can go on making our small choices, ‘reinventing ourselves’ thoroughly, on condition that these choices do not...
