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Hi nice people (and mean ones, though I’m sure most of the people who read my blog are nice, since sound and true theology tends to drive away mean people, right?). Anyway, last week I…

Hello folks, I spent last week in London speaking at Revive, the annual get together of Ichthus Christian Fellowship headed up by Roger and Faith Forster.  It was, as they say over there, “lovely” and…

I’m sure most of you have heard of the arrest of Dr. Henry Louis Gates, an African American professor at Harvard University. A neighbor called police because they thought a black man was trying to…

Hello Internet comrades, Some of you who have been visiting this site for a while may recall that I spend several months last year, beginning around March,  blogging mostly about the problem of reconciling the…

Hello bloggers, Well, I stared down the Grim Reaper, and won! Oh yeah! Greg 1: Grim Reaper: 0. Here’s the story. For the last several months I’ve been on track to become an anonymous kidney…

Hello blogging friends, Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking at the bi-annual national meeting of the Mennonite Church USA in Columbus Ohio. I love this group and am always delighted and humbled to be…

Hey this is Marcia, Greg’s faithful paparazzi. NDY drew an amazing crowd at O’Gara’s Friday night to raise support for Providence House in Haiti. It’s always a blast to party and dance together, but when…

F.Y.I., Not Dead Yet (the band I drum in — I’m the cute guy on the far left) will be playing  this Friday (June 26th, 2009) at O’Gara’s in St. Paul, Minnesota. The dance/concert starts…

As a way of helping people experience the incomprehensible transcendence of God, I showed a clip from the IMAX mini-documentary “The Cosmic Voyage” in my sermon this last week. Starting with a circle one meter…

Hi bloggers, I’m sure some of you have read Frank Viola’s Pagan Christianity and Reimagining the Church. In the first work he shows how a great deal of the traditional model of the church is…

For my 52nd birthday I went to the animated movie Up with Shelley and a couple of friends. What a marvelous birthday present!! People, you HAVE to see this show (and in the theaters, not…

All my life there’s been a haunting song that would pop into my head now and then.  The lyrics went… Traveling around from town to town. Sometimes I think I’ll settle down. But I know…

I spent last week railing against The American Patriot’s Bible which, among other things, unwittingly depicts Jesus as your typical pagan tribal warrior god who happens to always side with America (because we are so…

Beginning with my previous post I’m offering some reflections on the New American Patriot’s Bible (henceforth Patriot’s Bible). The Patriot’s Bible opens with several prefaces, one of which is an essay entitled A Call To…

Someone e-mailed me a question the other day that might initially seem like a child’s question but that actually touches on an extremely important, but often overlooked, point. It concerns the significance of God’s infinitude….

Hello CVM Bloggers, I received quite a lot of interesting feedback on my last post addressing the demise of Christianity in America and claiming that this is not something Jesus-followers should weep over. One particularly…

Hello bloggers, I’ve come across two very interesting and insightful essays this week on the demise of American Christianity. The first is Michael Spencer’s “The coming evangelical collapse” published in the Christian Science Monitor, and…