He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake. The older I get and

Dear Evangelical Preachers, I think you believe you’re helping right now. I think you believe you’re actually glorifying God. I think you believe you’re somehow bolstering the Gospel. I think

In these days having a working heart is a hazardous proposition. Looking around and seeing how calloused the world has become, how much bitterness has seeped into the bloodstream, how little

Every year at this time Christians in America go to battle. They speak of a great war: the one they claim is being waged on Christmas; the one in which they

A few days ago we started making plans to spend Christmas week in Central New York with my extended family. It’s been a long time since we made the trek up North

The holidays are difficult when you’re losing your religion. When your beliefs begin to shift and when doubt creeps in, those dates on the calendar that used to bring such joy, the ones

When you lose someone you love, good people do what good people do—they try and help. They see you in the deepest despair and they want desperately to pull you out,

I’m sorry to break it to you, Internet Evangelical trolls—but Jesus was a social justice warrior. He could also probably come across as a real jerk sometimes, too. Most Christians paint

In a land where the states are united, they claim, in a sky-scraping tower adorned with his name, lived a terrible, horrible, devious chump, the bright orange miscreant known as the

Oh, we need a little Christmas, right this very minute…. Have you ever felt like something was off, something you couldn’t quite place but you were sure of just the same;

They say that every man has his price; present him with an attractive enough offer and he will part with even that which he treasures most. All convictions become negotiable, every

Days have a way of fooling us. Most of them look so unassuming and normal when they arrive, so very ordinary that we don’t care for them properly. We take

I’m not okay with this. I’m not getting over it. I’m not going to accept it. I’m not going to move on. I’m not going to shut up. I’m not

Guilt is a powerful drug. Once it has its hooks in you, once it enters your bloodstream, it can impossible to get yourself free. For twenty years I’ve been a

We often view gratitude through the filter of what is pleasant, as if only comfort and ease are worth being thankful for.  Today, here are a few places you might

Words have persuasive power. They are stunningly deceptive. They can begin to fool you the longer they hang around. Hear them enough times and you become numb to their truth. The

My apologies in advance. I was going to use this space to share some wise and pithy insights on how to navigate the holidays after one of the most divisive,

Mr. Trump, did that really happen? Did you, the President-Elect of this country, really Tweet 3 times in the span of two days, to complain that your Vice President was being “harassed”

I know a guy who got straight A’s in school and flunked life. – Mike Yaconelli Congratulations. If you’re reading this you made it. You’ve received another day.  But like all days it will

Running low on hope these days? You’re in good company, friend. For many of us it’s been a tall order to try and fend of the discouragement that seems unrelenting

If you voted for him, I really need you to hear something right now: I believe you. I believe you when you say that you’re not a racist. I believe

That’s it, I’m out. That was my first thought as a hopeful Election Day became a sleepless Election Night and then the sickening day after, and as the reality of the results began