Category: taming the tongue
Toxic Christianity: When Our Public Face Poisons Faith
If there's one thing that leaves me completely aghast, it's Christians hurting one another and using religion to justify their behavior, or citing it as the reason that they didn't step in to defend the hurting, vulnerable party. It's the child ...
'Tis the season for contentious status updates. Every year around this time, faithful followers of the Prince of Peace start picking fights with people who celebrate the "holidays," and double-dog-daring the 3% of their Facebook followers who aren't too chicken ...
Why You Should Quit Talking About Your “Beautiful Wife”
Eugene Cho, pastor, social entrepreneur, blogger, and fellow Covenanter (just had to get that in there!), posted this video on his blog yesterday. It's over eight minutes long, but seriously? Watch the whole thing. Even if it turns your stomach a ...
Why Christians Lie
This morning, as I was continuing my purge of my tiny office, I came across a dusty magazine that someone had passed on to me a couple years back. I was about to toss it in the trash can, when ...
Controversy, Bible Bullets, and Godly Conversations
Quick: what's your opinion on gender roles? The debt ceiling? Gay marriage? Michelle Bachmann? War? Predestination? Before you blurt it out--stop. Just stop. Think for a moment about the words that are about to leave your mouth. Are they kind? Thoughtful? Honoring to ...
Watch Your Mouth!
I'm angry. And I'm going to spout off. But I'm going to do it gently, with humility, I hope. The day began normally. I Googled a well-respected Christian author and scholar I was recently introduced to, only to find a blog by ...
A Broken Trust, and the reason I write.
"A Broken Trust," an article I wrote about domestic violence in the church, is being featured in the April 2011 issue of The Covenant Companion. You can read it online here: http://www.covchurch.org/resources/files/2010/12/4.2011.A-Broken-Trust.pdfWriting this article was a little bit like giving birth--long, ...
It’s a scandal, it’s an outrage…
Wow, it's been a LOOOONG time since I blogged! But today I felt compelled to blog about a common, debilitating condition among Christians (and non-Christians, too): outrage.Now, outrage is not always a bad thing. There are plenty of things in ...
