Who do they think I am?
The personalized advertising Facebook chooses can be baffling. Some ads have me wondering what I wrote, said or searched for online. What in my particular “al-gore-rhythm” concluded that bamboo textile …
How much Jesus is too much Jesus?
For some Americanized Christians a dead Jesus is apparently enough Jesus. For example, a Christian university in California has an entire web page dedicated to unfolding their prescription of a …
Why are Americanized Christians so easily led astray?
Day after day it gets more confounding and exasperating to watch so many white Americanized Christians cast their lots with that which is so clearly in contrast to the life, …
Yellowstone, Christians and trademarks
Names of national parks in the U.S. are not trademarked. Unlike universities that make billions putting their names and logos on everything humanly possible, the park names can go on …
When the church rejects its own warnings
The greatest fear of American evangelicals in the 1970s was that some young person would join a cult. Despite their own cult-like obsession at the time over predicting the immediate …
We could say something, but…
When Native Americans were demeaned, driven from their homes and put on a death march by government officials — many professing white Christians could have come to the defense of …
The irrelevance of Jesus
Why is Jesus so irrelevant for so many who claim to be Christian? Does it matter that swarms of the most loudly proclaiming Christians in America — who have professed …
Reorienting our maps
Being spiritually “lost” was a common concern (or accusation) in the conservative faith tradition so familiar to many of us. Tragically now, it this very slice of white Americanized Christianity …
Shady, angry people
The Christian testimony that many Americanized Christians don’t want to hear is when someone tells of leaving their familiar fundamentalist/evangelical subculture in order to find Jesus. In the second season …
Failing Jesus 101
White Americanized Christians in large numbers keep failing Jesus 101 — even though it is an open-book test. The one thing Jesus so often called his followers not to do …