Last week I finished my whirlwind tour around Texas, meeting with ministry partners individually over coffee or a meal and in small groups in several partners’ homes. It really is one of my favorite weeks of the year. I love…

The past few weeks Austin Stone Community Church has been teaching a series on the sovereignty of God in suffering.  While I’ve enjoyed the series and agree with most of their theology on this difficult subject, I have also been…

This last week fourteen CRM staff gathered for our annual conference. Yep, that’s it… just fourteen of us working on about six different campuses. Even with a group that small our differences are profound. We all have different gifts, different…

One of the keys to living a missional life is to live holistically by not compartmentalizing life into the two categories of “the sacred” and “the secular.” We tend to consider church, small groups, devotional times, and service as the…

It is my earnest wish that this blog post will be short. Every blog post that I’ve written, whether for this series or for The Gospel Rants, has contained the word ‘short’ or the phrase ‘won’t take much time’ in…

What is Slut Shaming and Why Should We Care About It? Slut shaming refers to making a woman feel guilty or inferior because of her sexuality. This could occur because a woman violates a cultural sexual norm (having sex outside…

Here’s a beautiful article that popped up on my news feed one day: http://www.statepress.com/2012/09/27/from-atheism-to-catechism/ This article is about is a guy named Josh, who used to be the president of the secular society at Arizona State University, who converted to…

Here are a few thoughts as I have been meeting with students. Lost in a Fog In today’s society with a plethora of knowledge at everyone’s fingertips it is easy to quickly become overwhelmed with theological content. It is incredibly…

I’ve always said that my room mirrors the current state of my life. Before this weekend when I helped staff a retreat called Longhorn Awakening hosted by the University Catholic Center, my room looked like the “sour” part of a…