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Blogging

• Blog Saturation
• Calvin's Comeback
• Rearranging the Furniture
• The Artist's Way

Books, Comix, Movies, and Music

• Another Scarry Quotation
• Brinksmanship
• Carol Lay's Comix
• Concern About The Golden Compass
• Creative Covers: Gob does Mr. Sandman
• Creative Covers: MFATGG does Rainbow Connection
• Creative Covers: MFATGG does Somewhere Over the Rainbow
• Creative Covers: Paul Anka does Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Flatland: The Movie
• Gangsters, Kings, and Presidents
• Hungu
• Like Hope, But Different
• Morality in the Movies vs. Poetic Injustice
• Movie Mini-Review - The Lives of Others
• Of Making Many Books There is No End
• Public Domain Music
• Reading and Chocolate
• Rick Steves' Documentary on Iran
• Rock's Speech from Alien 3
• Stravinsky in Space
• The Education of Shelby Knox - Mini-review
• The God Who Wasn't There Part 1: First Impressions
• The God Who Wasn't There Part 2: Overview and Outline
• The God Who Wasn't There Part 3: The Sense of Moderate Christianity
• The God Who Wasn't There Part 4: The Historicity of Jesus
• The Golden Compass and Hallmarks of Methodism
• The Wall
• The Worship Industry
• War and Peace (and Comix)
• Why I Love Zombie Movies

Childhood and Adolescence

• From the Mouths of Babes
• My Rules
• Sex and the Bible
• The Boy Jesus
• The Education of Shelby Knox - Mini-review
• The Missing Generation, pt. 1
• The Missing Generation, pt. 2
• Why is Church Anti-Boy?

Education

• Reading and Chocolate
• The Education of Shelby Knox - Mini-review
• The Missing Generation, pt. 1

Funny

• "Gates? What Kind of Neighborhood is Heaven in?"
• 10 Reasons Ash Wednesday is Better than Christmas
• 18 More Groups that have Infiltrated the Church
• Baptism for Dummies
• Brilliant Parody
• Brinksmanship
• Church Marketing
• Creative Covers: Gob does Mr. Sandman
• Creative Covers: MFATGG does Rainbow Connection
• Creative Covers: MFATGG does Somewhere Over the Rainbow
• Freaks and Geeks
• Happy Belated Cheese-Paring Day
• Hymn Lyrics
• Like Hope, But Different
• Monday Morning (Belated) Bible Haiku: Genesis 4
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 1
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 11
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 12
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 13
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 14 (Melchizedek)
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 17
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 2
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 3
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 5
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 6-8
• Monday Morning Hermeneutics Haiku
• Of Money, Asses, and Idiots
• Random Linkage
• Satan's Waitin'
• Taxonomy of Email Forwards
• The Mean Daddy
• The More I Learn, The Less I Know

Language and Rhetoric

• All Language is Political: "Negro Dialect" and the Power of Words
• Carol Lay's Comix
• Challenges in Creating a Culture of Gratitude
• Gangsters, Kings, and Presidents
• Hymn Lyrics
• Playing Whack-a-Mole
• Social Justice FAQ
• Taxonomy of Email Forwards
• The Bible, Uncensored (M.F.S.O.B.)
• The Problem with Political Speechwriters
• Why Obama Will Win: Learned Optimism, Hope, and the Power of Words
• Words and Power

Miscellaneous

• 10 Reasons Ash Wednesday is Better than Christmas
• 18 More Groups that have Infiltrated the Church
• A Very Sad Story (Please Keep It Going!)
• Average Number of Bibles per Household
• Blog Saturation
• Confessions of a Mac Bigot, and a Plea for Help
• Curmudgeonly Lectionary Reflections - Feeding the 5000
• Dawkins, Literalists, and the 10 Scientific Commandments
• Freaks and Geeks
• Happy Belated Cheese-Paring Day
• I Was Kidding about an Apple Car...
• Kitchen Design and Theology
• My Personal War on Oil Part 2
• Of Money, Asses, and Idiots
• Photography and Theology
• Pinhole Camera Experiment
• Pinhole Photography Update
• Prayer for a Belligerent Panhandler
• Random Linkage
• Reading and Chocolate
• Site Redesign
• Snowball Fight
• Tech Lust: Aptera
• The Mean Daddy
• The Problem with Political Speechwriters
• Triumph of the Kitsch
• Two of my Favorite Blogs
• Why is Church Anti-Boy?

• Pictures

  • Photography and Theology
  • Pinhole Camera Experiment
  • Pinhole Photography Update
  • Snowball Fight

• Rants

  • 10 Reasons Ash Wednesday is Better than Christmas
  • 18 More Groups that have Infiltrated the Church
  • A Very Sad Story (Please Keep It Going!)
  • Confessions of a Mac Bigot, and a Plea for Help
  • Curmudgeonly Lectionary Reflections - Feeding the 5000
  • Dawkins, Literalists, and the 10 Scientific Commandments
  • Kitchen Design and Theology
  • Of Money, Asses, and Idiots
  • Prayer for a Belligerent Panhandler
  • The Mean Daddy
  • The Problem with Political Speechwriters
  • Why is Church Anti-Boy?

News

• "God Wants Us to Love Everybody"
• All Language is Political: "Negro Dialect" and the Power of Words
• And What if we Discover an AIDS Vaccine?
• Bono's Open Letter to Italy and the G8
• Clobbering Clergy Clash over Christmas Cleaning
• Dawkins, Literalists, and the 10 Scientific Commandments
• Dawkins/Lennox Debate Reflection
• Dawkins/Lennox Debate: God Have Mercy
• Good News to the Poor (and Everyone Else!)
• I Was Kidding about an Apple Car...
• In Alabama? Seriously?
• Living the Sermon on the Mount
• Manufacturing Dissent
• Of Money, Asses, and Idiots
• Playing Whack-a-Mole
• Social Justice FAQ
• U2charist
• U2charist Wrap-up
• Why Obama Will Win: Learned Optimism, Hope, and the Power of Words
• Words and Power

Personal

• A Very Sad Story (Please Keep It Going!)
• Favorite Fair Trade Shopping Sites
• My Personal War on Oil
• My Rules
• No Wonder I Need a Sunday Nap
• One Week Away
• Rearranging the Furniture
• Restless
• Snowball Fight
• Transitions

Places

• "God Wants Us to Love Everybody"
• Amman to Gerash
• Chiquitano Stations of the Cross
• Clobbering Clergy Clash over Christmas Cleaning
• Gerash Part 2
• Happy Belated Cheese-Paring Day
• Like Hope, But Different
• Long Flights and Cold Water
• Restless
• Return from Bolivia
• The Road to Peace...
• The Wall
• The Weather is Beautiful...

• Bolivia

  • Chiquitano Stations of the Cross

• Holy Land

  • "God Wants Us to Love Everybody"
  • Amman to Gerash
  • Clobbering Clergy Clash over Christmas Cleaning
  • Gerash Part 2
  • Like Hope, But Different
  • Long Flights and Cold Water
  • Restless
  • The Road to Peace...
  • The Wall
  • The Weather is Beautiful...

Psychology

• Jesus and Sarcasm
• The Boy Jesus
• The Missing Generation, pt. 2
• Why Most Christians Don't Love Jesus (Part 1)
• Why Most Christians Don't Love Jesus (Part 2)
• Why Obama Will Win: Learned Optimism, Hope, and the Power of Words

Religion

• "Aha" Moments with the Bible
• "God Wants Us to Love Everybody"
• 10 Reasons Ash Wednesday is Better than Christmas
• 18 More Groups that have Infiltrated the Church
• A Very Sad Story (Please Keep It Going!)
• Advice for Preachers
• Another Scarry Quotation
• Baptism for Dummies
• Bible Timeline
• Blowin' in the Wind
• Bono's Open Letter to Italy and the G8
• Calvin's Comeback
• Cartoon of NT Origins
• Challenges in Creating a Culture of Gratitude
• Chiquitano Stations of the Cross
• Concern About The Golden Compass
• Curmudgeonly Lectionary Reflections - Feeding the 5000
• Dawkins, Literalists, and the 10 Scientific Commandments
• Dawkins/Lennox Debate Reflection
• Dawkins/Lennox Debate: God Have Mercy
• Gangsters, Kings, and Presidents
• Good News to the Poor (and Everyone Else!)
• Happy Easter
• Hymn Lyrics
• In-carn-ation
• Miraculous Birth
• Monday Morning (Belated) Bible Haiku: Genesis 15 and the Covenant of Caanan
• Monday Morning (Belated) Bible Haiku: Genesis 21
• Monday Morning (Belated) Bible Haiku: Genesis 4
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 1
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 11
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 12
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 13
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 14 (Melchizedek)
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 16
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 17
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 18
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 19
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 2
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 20
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 22
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 3
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 5
• Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 6-8
• Monday Morning Hermeneutics Haiku
• More "Aha!" Moments With the Bible
• No Wonder I Need a Sunday Nap
• Of Making Many Books There is No End
• One Week Away
• Photography and Theology
• Playing Whack-a-Mole
• Satan's Waitin'
• Sexist Praise Songs
• Shoutin' Methodists
• Social Justice FAQ
• Social Justice Rejoinder
• Sounds Like Social Justice to Me
• Taxonomy of Email Forwards
• The Boy Jesus
• The Church and Public Life
• The God Who Wasn't There Part 1: First Impressions
• The God Who Wasn't There Part 2: Overview and Outline
• The God Who Wasn't There Part 3: The Sense of Moderate Christianity
• The Golden Compass and Hallmarks of Methodism
• The High Price of Poverty
• The Iron Smelter
• The More I Learn, The Less I Know
• The Paradoxes of Poverty
• The Real and Imaginary Church
• The School Bus Test
• What Good is Hell, Then?
• Why is Church Anti-Boy?

• Bible

  • "Aha" Moments with the Bible
  • Bible Timeline
  • Blowin' in the Wind
  • Cartoon of NT Origins
  • Curmudgeonly Lectionary Reflections - Feeding the 5000
  • Dawkins, Literalists, and the 10 Scientific Commandments
  • Good News to the Poor (and Everyone Else!)
  • Miraculous Birth
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 11
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 19
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 20
  • Monday Morning Hermeneutics Haiku
  • More "Aha!" Moments With the Bible
  • Playing Whack-a-Mole
  • Sexist Praise Songs
  • Social Justice FAQ
  • The Iron Smelter
  • The More I Learn, The Less I Know

• Monday Morning Bible Haiku

  • Monday Morning (Belated) Bible Haiku: Genesis 15 and the Covenant of Caanan
  • Monday Morning (Belated) Bible Haiku: Genesis 21
  • Monday Morning (Belated) Bible Haiku: Genesis 4
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 1
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 12
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 13
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 14 (Melchizedek)
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 16
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 17
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 18
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 19
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 2
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 20
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 22
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 3
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 5
  • Monday Morning Bible Haiku: Genesis 6-8

• Church

  • 10 Reasons Ash Wednesday is Better than Christmas
  • Baptism for Dummies
  • Challenges in Creating a Culture of Gratitude
  • Church Marketing
  • Excellent Article on Glide Memorial
  • Hymn Lyrics
  • Of Making Many Books There is No End
  • Sexist Praise Songs
  • Shoutin' Methodists
  • Social Justice FAQ
  • Social Justice Rejoinder
  • The Golden Compass and Hallmarks of Methodism
  • The High Price of Poverty
  • The Missing Generation, pt. 1
  • The Missing Generation, pt. 2
  • The More I Learn, The Less I Know
  • The Paradoxes of Poverty
  • The Poverty Problem
  • The Real and Imaginary Church
  • We Moved the Jesus Picture, Part 1
  • We Moved the Jesus Picture, Part 2
  • We Moved the Jesus Picture, Part 3
  • Why Most Christians Don't Love Jesus (Part 1)
  • Why Most Christians Don't Love Jesus (Part 2)

• Exegesis

  • Blowin' in the Wind
  • Curmudgeonly Lectionary Reflections - Feeding the 5000
  • Jesus and Sarcasm
  • Sex and the Bible
  • The Bible, Uncensored (M.F.S.O.B.)
  • The Boy Jesus
  • The Iron Smelter
  • The School Bus Test
  • Why Most Christians Don't Love Jesus (Part 2)
  • Your Eyes Are Too Pure to Look on Evil

• Preaching & Worship

  • "Don't Preach At Me"
  • A Very Sad Story (Please Keep It Going!)
  • Advice for Preachers
  • Blowin' in the Wind
  • Christmas Eve Prayer
  • Curmudgeonly Lectionary Reflections - Feeding the 5000
  • Hymn Lyrics
  • National Sins and Miseries
  • No Wonder I Need a Sunday Nap
  • Pastoral Prayer for 12-2-07
  • Playing Whack-a-Mole
  • Preaching Boot Camp
  • Sanctifying Grace
  • Satan's Waitin'
  • Social Justice FAQ
  • Sunday
  • The Bible, Uncensored (M.F.S.O.B.)
  • The Boy Jesus
  • The Golden Compass and Hallmarks of Methodism
  • The More I Learn, The Less I Know
  • The School Bus Test
  • The Worship Industry
  • Transitions
  • U2charist
  • U2charist Wrap-up
  • Uncomfortable with Incarnation
  • We Moved the Jesus Picture, Part 1
  • We Moved the Jesus Picture, Part 2
  • We Moved the Jesus Picture, Part 3
  • Why Do We Celebrate Holy Week?

• Theology

  • A Reflection on Atheism
  • And What if we Discover an AIDS Vaccine?
  • Atonement Theory and God's Justice
  • Bono's Open Letter to Italy and the G8
  • Calvin's Comeback
  • Debt, Grace, Destiny, and Dave Ramsey
  • From the Mouths of Babes
  • In-carn-ation
  • Jesus and Sarcasm
  • John Wesley on the Practical Problem of Predestination
  • On Doctrine
  • Prayer for a Belligerent Panhandler
  • Sanctifying Grace
  • Sex and the Bible
  • Sexist Praise Songs
  • Social Justice FAQ
  • The Bible, Uncensored
  • The God Who Wasn't There Part 1: First Impressions
  • The God Who Wasn't There Part 2: Overview and Outline
  • The God Who Wasn't There Part 4: The Historicity of Jesus
  • The Golden Compass and Hallmarks of Methodism
  • The Poverty Problem
  • The School Bus Test
  • Trinitarian Thinking
  • Uncomfortable with Incarnation
  • What Good is Hell, Then?
  • What is Prevenient Grace?
  • Why Do We Celebrate Holy Week?
  • Why Most Christians Don't Love Jesus (Part 1)
  • Why Most Christians Don't Love Jesus (Part 2)
  • Wisdom from Chuck Wesley
  • Your Eyes Are Too Pure to Look on Evil

Society

• 18 More Groups that have Infiltrated the Church
• All Language is Political: "Negro Dialect" and the Power of Words
• Bono's Open Letter to Italy and the G8
• Challenges in Creating a Culture of Gratitude
• Favorite Fair Trade Shopping Sites
• Good News to the Poor (and Everyone Else!)
• In Alabama? Seriously?
• Manufacturing Dissent
• My Personal War on Oil
• My Personal War on Oil Part 2
• National Sins and Miseries
• Open Secret
• Playing Whack-a-Mole
• Sexist Praise Songs
• Social Justice FAQ
• Social Justice Rejoinder
• Sounds Like Social Justice to Me
• Taxonomy of Email Forwards
• The Bible, Uncensored (M.F.S.O.B.)
• The High Price of Poverty
• The Missing Generation, pt. 1
• The Missing Generation, pt. 2
• The Other Alabama
• The Paradoxes of Poverty
• The Poverty Problem

• Economics

  • Social Justice FAQ
  • The High Price of Poverty

• Race, Gender, and Class

  • 18 More Groups that have Infiltrated the Church
  • All Language is Political: "Negro Dialect" and the Power of Words
  • Good News to the Poor (and Everyone Else!)
  • In Alabama? Seriously?
  • Manufacturing Dissent
  • Open Secret
  • Sexist Praise Songs
  • Social Justice FAQ
  • Social Justice Rejoinder
  • The Missing Generation, pt. 2

• Social Discourse

  • 18 More Groups that have Infiltrated the Church
  • The Bible, Uncensored (M.F.S.O.B.)
  • The Other Alabama

• Politics

  • 18 More Groups that have Infiltrated the Church
  • Bono's Open Letter to Italy and the G8
  • Brilliant Parody
  • Brinksmanship
  • Gangsters, Kings, and Presidents
  • Manufacturing Dissent
  • Monday Afternoon Alabama Constitutional Haiku
  • Monday Morning (Belated) Bible Haiku: Genesis 15 and the Covenant of Caanan
  • My Personal War on Oil
  • My Personal War on Oil Part 2
  • National Sins and Miseries
  • Open Secret
  • Playing Whack-a-Mole
  • Social Justice FAQ
  • Taxonomy of Email Forwards
  • The High Price of Poverty
  • The Other Alabama
  • The Problem with Political Speechwriters
  • Why Obama Will Win: Learned Optimism, Hope, and the Power of Words
  • Words and Power