Whatdoigottado? Life and Community

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Have you figured out the balance between personal responsibility and life in community? I’m further from it than I thought I was. I’ve grown very comfortable with Nate Larkin’s phrase, “Christianity is a team sport, not an individual event.” I get that I’m full of lies and self-defeating habits and that I need grace both ...

Tumors, Muscles and the Face of Christianity

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“The rest of the church is just so lame by comparison.” I hear it with nearly every church, ministry, non-profit or recovery client or friend. Some aspect of life, or some gathering, some ministry, some men’s group, some cause – some thing has grabbed the attention of a portion of the Body and become so ...

The Offense

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The funny thing about creating this post highlighting Kierkegaard’s piece called “The Offense” is that I had a very hard time thinking of an example of Christianity – in the sense of humble obedience to Jesus – being offensive in the world today. Christianity – in the sense of stuff church people do and protest ...