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👉"Believe in UFOs?" "No. I believe in God. I study UFOs." Theologian Ted Peters on why alien life is a question for science, not faith — and the deeper question that haunts theology: if there are other intelligent beings out there, did Christ die for them too? 🛸 ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/public...
Search For ETI In Science And Theology
Distinguish science from theology in the Search for ETI. We study astrobiology and UFO/UAP scientifically, we do not believe in either UFOs or ETI.
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👉From the Heisman spotlight to a prison cell to the sidelines at Norfolk State — Michael Vick's story is one of fall and restoration. Psalm 23. "The Lord is my shepherd."👀 How faith, discipline, and a second chance shaped one of football's most electric talents. 🏈 ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/electi...
Michael Vick, Norfolk St. Head Coach: Anchored By Psalm 23
Michael Vick went from famous to felon to college head coach. Read this article to see how Psalm 23 helps initiate and restore his faith.
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We are stewards living in our Father’s world. Knowing and confessing this should change the way we live. A new blog post on @patheos.com . www.patheos.com/blogs/leadaq...
The Earth Is The Lord’s: Learning To Live As Stewards
What if everything we have is a gift entrusted to us by God? Psalm 24 invites us to rethink ownership, stewardship, and the way we live.
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👉"There is nothing new under the sun." Kathy King connects today's gender identity debate to ancient history, spiritual warfare, and the finished work of the Cross. Challenging, compassionate, and Christ-centered. 👀 #GenderIdentity #PositivePensees #Christianfaith ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/positi...
Why Are So Many People Questioning Their Gender Identity?
Why do we often hear of many people questioning their gender identity? It almost seems as if it is a social contagion. Who are you In Jesus?
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God's invitation to Sabbath is more than a command—it's a harbor for weary souls. Sometimes we need longer seasons of stillness to be restored. A blog post on @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/leadaq...
Port Of Call: Sometimes We Need More Than A Weekly Sabbath
God's invitation to Sabbath is more than a command—it's a harbor for souls. Sometimes we need longer seasons of stillness to be restored.
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A NATION WRESTLES WITH GOD, edited by Ilan Stavans, was reviewed in @patheos.com this week. Carl Gregg called it "notably diverse in both genre and perspective" and said it "invites readers to wrestle directly with the texts themselves." Read the full review: https://page1m.co/3Tkd8Eq
Gratitude isn't pretending everything is okay. It's learning to take every thought and moment captive and turn it toward grateful worship. A blog post on @patheos.com
Taking Every Thought Captive: Learning Gratitude
Taking every thought captive means more than resisting sin—it means transforming our thoughts into gratitude and worship.
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Are you a preacher concerned about climate change? You're not alone! Join the monthly, online EcoPreacher Cohort and find your people! Early Bird registration ends Aug. 1. thebtscenter.org/ecopreacher-...
👉Be holy, for I am holy." It sounds like an impossible command—until you look at the original languages. "Holy" (Hebrew: kadash) doesn't mean flawless. It means set apart. God isn't asking for perfection you can't deliver; He's asking you to be different.👀 ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/ravens...
What Does The Bible Actually Mean When It Says 'Be Holy'?
Struggling with God’s command to "be holy"? Discover how the original biblical languages reveal a message of grace, growth, and identity rather than impossible perfection.
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"We have been given a wonderful world to live in. We have not appreciated it as we should." Henry Karlson on why climate change denial isn't just willful ignorance — it's a failure of Christian stewardship. #Patheos #HenryKarlson #ABitofNothing ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/henryk...
Climate Change Denial And The Cost Of Willful Ignorance
As record heat buckles roads, one writer asks why so many Christians treat climate change as a "pet project" rather than a matter of stewardship.
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Is your pulpit silent on the #climatecrisis? Preachers often underestimate their congregation’s readiness for environmental engagement. Discover how to transform eco-grief into a source of shared purpose and resilience. @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopre...
Making Space For Eco-Grief—and Hope—in Your Church
Help your church make space for eco-grief and hope through practices of lament, testimony, and care in a climate-changed world.
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👉I became a Christian and assumed sanctification would work like a software update: agree to the terms, restart once, and voilà—fewer bugs, better performance. Turns out it's more like a slow-cooker recipe. And I'm still raw in the middle. 🐌 #HumorBreak #Patheos ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/humorb...
I Thought I’d Be Holier By Now
Sanctification was supposed to work like a software update. Instead, it's the ultimate slow-cooker recipe, and I'm still raw in the middle.
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👉It's hot, and it's your turn to feed the fam. 🌽 From grilled corn and fall-off-the-bone ribs to the real-deal Southern banana pudding (the one that got me three marriage proposals), here's a batch of easy summer recipes for family dinners and covered-dish crowds.🌴 ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/ichase...
Hot Weather Recipes
It's hot! And you have to feed the fam. Here are some easy and satisfying summer meal recipes for family dinners or covered-dish crowds.
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👉After Carson v. Makin, the Supreme Court said states can't exclude religious schools just for being religious. But states are finding new ways to do exactly that. 🛑 Maine, Texas, Oklahoma — and Florida's different path. New article explores it all. 🔗 #Faith4Today ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/faith4...
Religious Schools And Equal Access To Public Funding
Religious schools across the U.S. face public funding disputes. Explore cases involving Christian, Muslim, and Jewish schools.
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👉The SSPX excommunication looks like a rupture. But 👀 look closer: the Vatican simultaneously opened a 🚪clear door home for every priest and layperson. Bishop Caggiano is already extending the welcome. This may be the best chance for reconciliation in decades. 👀 ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/format...
The Big Opportunity For Bishops After The SSPX Consecrations
The events leading up to and following the consecration of four new SSPX bishops are tragic. Ironically, the Vatican’s firm response may have
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Thirty years ago I fed my infant son a bottle. Last week we raised a glass together. Between those photos: a whole generation. An immigrant father on what America at 250 is, & why the next chapter gets written not in Washington, but in small daily acts of kindness. ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/buildi...
America At 250: The Country We Are Still Becoming
An immigrant father reflects on citizenship at America's 250th: the next chapter won't be written in Washington, but in small daily acts of kindness.
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A viral VBS skit in my city — men in uniform, gunfire, kids chanting "Take him out!" — is Christian nationalism dressed as spiritual warfare. It violates Matt 18:6. Here's how parents can respond. @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopre...
VBS Murder Skit: When A Church Teaches Children Violence
A pastor reflects on a viral VBS gun skit, explaining why staged violence in church harms children and distorts the gospel of Jesus.
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Children cheered as "the devil" was mock-executed by rifle fire at a Kentucky VBS. Why weren't they afraid? Because they'd seen something similar in this church before. As a minister, I'm calling this what I believe it is: spiritual abuse. @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopre...
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church VBS: A Closer Look, Hard Questions
The violent VBS skit at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church raises questions about children’s safety, spiritual abuse & Christian nationalist formation.
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Psalm 23 is more than a funeral psalm. It is a poem for pilgrims, a portable theology meant to be carried in the heart. www.patheos.com/blogs/leadaq... A Blog Post on @patheos.com.
Psalm 23: A Poem For The Pilgrimage
Psalm 23 is more than a funeral psalm. Discover how this familiar passage becomes a poem for pilgrims and a reminder of God's faithful care.
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Did Pentecostalism Kill Brazilian Football’s ‘Jogo Bonito’? My new @patheos.com piece www.patheos.com/blogs/theglo...
Trump called Chuck Schumer — who is Jewish — 👀 "essentially, a Palestinian" for supporting a two-state solution. This piece pushes back hard and asks whether Trump and Netanyahu have actually been good for Israel. 🔗 ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/kermit...
Trump Says Chuck Schumer Is A "Palestinian"
U.S. Republican President Donald Trump, who was always a resident of New York until recent years, said today that Chuck Schumer, the long time Democratic Chuck Schumer's ideas for Israel are better th...
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👉Three years trying to grow a watermelon. Raccoons, rot, and one fruit the size of a turkey egg. 👀 But the garden kept giving — surprise pumpkins, early grapes, sunflowers never planted. A lovely meditation on faith, hope, and trusting the harvest. 🍉 ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
On Faith, Hope, And Watermelons
I think of myself as an accomplished gardener, but I have never yet successfully grown a watermelon. I guess this silly story is all about faith, and hope, as gardening usually is.
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THE HONESTY CRISIS by @charactergap.bsky.social just landed a great review in @patheos.com. "If you want to better understand our current crisis of honesty, and how we might begin responding to it, I recommend Miller's book." — Carl Gregg. Read the review here: https://page1m.co/4xnoCXx #BookSky
Preaching is dirt talking to dirt about God. That one line reshuffled everything. Exploring what the Compelling Preaching Cohort taught me. A Blog Post on @patheos.com www.patheos.com/blogs/leadaq...
Dirt Talking To Dirt About God
A preacher is just dirt talking to dirt about God. That reframing changes everything about how we preach, prepare, and stay formed along the way.
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Friends, in my latest column on @patheos.com, I explore the SBC vote to ban women in ministry: “𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘺. 𝘐𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘺 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵.” www.patheos.com/blogs/sacred...
The SBC’s Genital Obsession Is Idolatry Women In Ministry And The SBC: Why Biological Authority Becomes Idolatry
This article argues that the Southern Baptist Convention’s restrictions on women in ministry distort biblical witness by privileging biological categories over divine calling and Spirit-led authority.
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Reading The 100 Thing Challenge by Dave Bruno challenged me to ask a better question: Can I own things without being owned by them? A blog post on @patheos.com. www.patheos.com/blogs/leadaq...
Owning Things Without Being Owned : The 100 Thing Challenge
Can we own things without being owned by them? Reflections on Dave Bruno's The 100 Thing Challenge and the pursuit of enough.
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👉In a hard season? Michele Howe wrote this for you. Her new 30-day devotional, "Brave Faith for Hard Things," helps readers trade anxiety for hope — one day at a time. Now available from CLC Publications.📘 ✍️ www.patheos.com/blogs/michel...
Brave Faith For Hard Things - New Book Release!
"We can do hard things because God is with us." A reflection on suffering, faith, and the sacred purpose hidden inside ordinary pain—from a new book.
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