Some thoughts on Bobbed Hair, Bossy Wives, and Women Preachers
Stephen Lamb :: I admit it: I’m tired. Tired of the perennial discussions about the things women aren’t allowed to do, or what a “real man” or “real woman” looks like, discussions that often invoke the descriptor “Biblical” as a way of trying to sanctify the speaker’s opinion. Listening to claims from John Piper’s Desiring [...]
Why the Church needs to shut up and listen… (a guest post)
We’re having conversations all over the place about spiritual abuse, church discipline, and Biblical approaches to the practice. And these are very important conversations to have.
But I’m also seeing a lot of people, in favor of being “Scriptural,” and “Biblical,” defending some pretty gross and terrible actions, all in the name of Christ.
It’s confirmed for me what I’ve already suspected, and what friends of mine realized long ago: Church, we suck at being a safe space for the hurting.
Christian lies…
A few years ago I was asked to write an essay for a newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter was to inspire and encourage people to trust God with their lives…
Date the church
One of the church’s long-standing dirty little secrets is the weird dynamics of membership. People have debated the necessity of church membership for centuries and continue to do so today. Books like “Stop Dating the Church” scold those with commitment issues, insisting you cannot really be part of the body of Christ unless you join [...]
Depressed? Speak up!
The following post is by my friend (and frequent reader of this blog) Alise D. Wright. If we met in real life, within just a few minutes you would realize that you will never, ever have a problem hearing me. I have what some might call a distinct voice. Most will probably just call it [...]
Death without God
When Matthew invited me to write a guest post for Jesus Needs New PR, I knew what I wanted to write about: my Grandmother’s death. Since then, and in light of recent posts about Matthew’s friend, Sara, I decided to write about death a bit more broadly and my response to it as a non-believer.
AN UPDATE: Remembering September 11 (at a mosque)
This is a guest post. I asked Lynn Grassmeyer, who was featured HERE on my blog, to write in her own words what she experienced as she remembered 9-11 with a group of strangers at a mosque. These are her words… JUST A SEED by Lynn Grassmeyer One day last week I turned on our [...]
Culture shock & emotional breakdown (in the cereal aisle)
This is a guest post by Nish Weiseth They said this would happen upon reentry. The shattering. Erik and Rowan picked me up at the airport. Smiles plastered wide, I embraced fully, leaned my weight into theirs and became part of the family again. Rowan’s delight in me, my return, brought back thoughts of children [...]
Culture shock & emotional breakdown (in the cereal aisle)
This is a guest post by Nish Weiseth They said this would happen upon reentry. The shattering. Erik and Rowan picked me up at the airport. Smiles plastered wide, I embraced fully, leaned my weight into theirs and became part of the family again. Rowan’s delight in me, my return, brought back thoughts of children [...]
A BLOG POST: Eager Happy Stalkers for Jesus
This is a guest post by Jay Adams. I like to shop. I suppose that makes me a good American. However, there’s one thing that consistently diminishes my shopping joy. It’s that guy. You know that guy? The one that meets you at the front of the store and asks if you need [...]
The Sword of the Lord – Jerry Falwell and John R. Rice
by Stephen Lamb In January of 2007, Kevin Roose walked on to the campus of Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, ready to join 25,000 other students for the start of the spring semester. But there was one thing that set Kevin apart from his classmates, something his new friends wouldn’t know about until after he left [...]
A review of Rob Bell’s ‘Love Wins’
The following review is by Adam Ellis The fact that Rob Bell’s new book is considered controversial is as much a testimony to the marketing prowess of HarperOne (not to mention the unintentional marketing prowess of some critics), as it is to any theology contained in the book. The first lesson that can be derived [...]
Sad Friday: A Lesson Learned about Satire and the Church
This post is written by Eric Olsen… Last week, I created “Good Friday”, a parody of the infamous Rebecca Black’s song, “Friday”. This video achieved brief mainstream notoriety when celebrity blogger, Perez Hilton posted the video on PerezHilton.com. To be honest, I was nervous about whether or not non-Christians would “get it”. But more than [...]
A GUEST POST: What I’ve Learned About Blogging From Matthew Paul Turner
Today’s post is from writer, blogger, (and chemist?) Bryan Allain. As I’ve said before, Bryan is one of my favorite bloggers–and not just because he’s funny and my friend, either–because he’s a really good blogger. (You can read his blog here.) So… it’s no surprise to me that Bryan is brains behind this amazing new [...]
A BLOG POST: Sunsets, Silence, and Loneliness (part two)
Stephen Lamb: (read part one here) After I’d slowly read the opening pages of Frederick Buechner’s “The Killing of Time,” letting it create a space, as so much good writing does, for me to sort out my own thoughts, I continued reading, and found the passage I had first seen excerpted several years ago. It [...]
