Krochet Kids: Redeeming Africa One Beanie at a Time

Krochet Kids is a non-profit organization operating in Northern Uganda founded on love using the art of crochet to empower people out of poverty.
Recently, I did an interview with Nic Lauten who works with Krochet Kids to learn more about the organization.
If you want to learn about a great non-profit, check out the interview – [...]

Beer and Theology

Last night I met with a group of mostly strangers to talk about life, God, and everything in between.  It was a very informal meeting.  There were six of us sitting in Rock Bottom restaurant, each with a beer.
And we just talked.
We got to know each other a bit, figured out what each person did [...]

Jesus Wants to Save Christians: Part 6

This is the sixth and final post in this series that center on some thoughts I had while reading Rob Bell’s Jesus Wants to Save Christians. These entries were originally blogged at Conversant Life sometime during 2008.
Read: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
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Jesus Wants to Save Christians Part 6: (Re)Interpreting the [...]

Book Review: Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

Apologetics is a very popular pasttime for many Christians these days.  Many have even made a career out of defending the Christian faith from the numerous philosophies, theories, and heresies surrounding the Church.  These men and women set out to prove those theories wrong using science, history, and recent findings of every kind.
Chesterton was not [...]

Jesus Wants to Save Christians: Part 5

This is the fifth in a series of six posts that center on some thoughts I had while reading Rob Bell’s Jesus Wants to Save Christians. These entries were originally blogged at Conversant Life sometime during 2008.
Read: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
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Jesus Wants to Save Christians Part 5: God in a Box

What [...]

Book Review: This Book Will Change Your World

Just had a book review published on Wrecked.org reviewing Kevin Beck’s This Book Will Change Your World. Feel free to check it out! If you’re interested, you can read more about the book itself as well as read a FREE copy of the eBook by clicking here.
Here’s a teaser from my review of [...]

Jesus Wants to Save Christians: Part 4

This is the fourth in a series of six posts that center on some thoughts I had while reading Rob Bell’s Jesus Wants to Save Christians. These entries were originally blogged at Conversant Life sometime during 2008.
Read: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
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Jesus Wants to Save Christians Part 4: Why the Gospel is More than [...]

Street Preachers

Just read an article on Wrecked.org about a street preacher on a college campus. The article is titled Why I Don’t Want To Be A Christian Anymore. Check it out.
Now, I’m not a big fan of street preachers (or televangelists for that matter) and I’m not sure that I’d go as far as [...]

Jesus Wants to Save Christians: Part 3

This is the third in a series of six posts that center on some thoughts I had while reading Rob Bell’s Jesus Wants to Save Christians. These entries were originally blogged at Conversant Life sometime during 2008.
Read: Part 1, Part 2
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Jesus Wants to Save Christians Part 3: Not a Christian Nation
There is an almost silent, [...]

Short-Term Missions…Destructive?

Just read an article on NeueMinistry.com titled To Give or To Lend exploring the good that is being brought about in countries around the world through what is called “micro-lending.” As the article explains:
“Micro-lending, it is called. It offers small loans to peasants in underdeveloped countries to assist them in growing their grass-roots businesses. [...]