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I’ll be out of cell phone range and won’t have internet access all week, so I’m featuring the “best of the blog.” Of the hundreds of entries, these are the ones that got the most comments, twitter shares and facebook shares. I’ll be sharing three articles each day this week. I hope you like perusing the archives! What Women Really Need from Men Here is an excerpt from my book Father Fiction. It made quite a splash when I released it. Apparently, lots of people have opinions on what what the opposite gender should do to be a good mate. What Men Really Need from Women And of course, turning the question around seems to get a lot of interest, too. What is it that men really need from women? Can I Tell You a Story If you’re not telling a story to and with your family and friends, somebody is. We are all consuming stories, and if we’re not telling one, we are living a story somebody else is dictating to us. Scary stuff! Time is running out to register for the Living a Better Story Seminar, the antidote for a boring life.

I’ll be out of cell phone range and won’t have internet access all week, so I’m featuring the “best of the blog.” Of the hundreds of entries, these are the ones that got the most comments, twitter shares and facebook shares. I’ll be sharing three articles each day this week. I hope you like perusing the archives! Does Your Personality Influence Your Theology? We all seem to think the particular theological positions we hold are true, but are there other factors that are leading us to believe so? Are certain personalities drawn to certain theological positions? Are we defending the truth, or our identities? Is Telling the Truth More Important Than Selling the Truth? This article explores the temptation to not be honest about our struggles because we fear  people might not “buy” our religion if we do. Why Doctrine is Only Half the Message I believe it was Ghandi who said “I like your Christ, I don’t like your Christian.” This popular article explores the idea that right theology espoused in arrogance is, effectively, wrong theology. Time is running out to register for the Living a Better Story Seminar, the antidote for a boring life.

I’ll be out of cell phone range and won’t have internet access all week, so I’m featuring the “best of the blog.” Of the hundreds of entries, these are the ones that got the most comments, twitter shares and facebook shares. I’ll be sharing three articles each day this week. I hope you like perusing the archives! Commercialism and Faith, The Effect of Commercials on the Human Brain This article is part one of a three-part series on the cultural language we speak here in America, and how it affects our faith. The average American encounters three-thousand commercial messages every day, which has caused us to think of Jesus as a product we consume to make life better. If it Weren’t for God, You’d be More Efficient This blog entry calls into question our efficiency-addicted culture of success, asking us to consider why it is  God has put so many systems in place that slow us down, cause us to stop and rest and attack our ability to accomplish great things. The Single Most Powerful Question You Can Ask What may be better than this blog entry are the comments that follow, in which people inspire themselves and each other [...]

I’ll be out of cell phone range and won’t have internet access all week, so I’m featuring the “best of the blog.” Of the hundreds of entries, these are the ones that got the most comments, twitter shares and facebook shares. I’ll be sharing three articles each day this week. I hope you like perusing the archives! A Response to Pat Robertson’s Comments about Haiti Perhaps the most popular blog entry with more than 500 comments and 8600 Facebook Shares, I wrote this in response to Pat Robertson’s offhand comment that Haiti was hit by an earthquake because Hatians made a pact with the devil. Robertson’s people never apologized for the statement, but rather issued a press release saying that Robertson was not referring to the earthquake. In other words, Robertson’s people added to injury by spinning the statement. Robertson was, of course, talking about the earthquake because that’s what the entire segment was about. But my guess is none of that is why this article was so popular. The article may have taken off because it’s really about controlling people, and why they say and do the things they say and do. Living a Better Story, an Alternative to [...]