Relevant Magazine is mostly noted for featuring updates on pop culture, entertainers, and Christian music. They also feature Christian authors and speakers from time to time. 

Relevant Magazine “has been berry, berry good to me.” Relevant wrote a positive review of my book, Reimagining Church. They promoted Jesus Manifesto. And they published A Vanishing God.

Relevant’s sister journal Neue has been “berry, berry good to me” also, publishing numerous articles and interviews over the years.

Last year, Relevant published a review of my hardcover, Revise Us Again.

As I’ve said elsewhere, I regard Revise Us Again to be in the top four of my most important books. It addresses problems that are rarely talked about today. Some of them being:

*How do you handle the times when God doesn’t meet your expectations and seems to neglect fulfilling His own promises?

*How do you cope with not feeling or sensing God’s presence (even at times when others do), and what does that mean exactly? And what does it not mean?

*What is the experience of “the dark night” in the Christian’s life and why does it happen? (This is greater than a dry spell. It’s when God seems to completely walk off the stage of your life.)

*How does personality and temperament effect how we hear God and how we talk about theology and spiritual things? Continue Reading…

Those of you who know me well . . . or who read this blog regularly . . . know that I love movies. It’s one of my favorite pastimes.

Seeing Christ in Films: Part I

Seeing Christ in Films: Part II

Some of My Favorite Films

That said, this year marks a decade of one of my favorite films of all time:

The Cutting Edge. 

So I’d like to celebrate.

I’ve been quoting lines from this movie since 1992, when it first came out. It’s always great fun to banter lines from the film with someone else who has seen it.

So watch it carefully, and let’s quote together.

Another favorite of mine from the 90s is Message in a Bottle (though I hated the end).

Being someone who rents movies, I don’t own very many.

But I own copies of these two films, and I’ve never grown tired of them.

If you are interested in ordering them for yourself, click the links below.

Order The Cutting Edge 

Order Message in a Bottle

N.T. Wright has just released another book. It’s the companion volume to his superb volume, Simply Jesus. He kindly had an early copy mailed to me.

Two months ago, I interviewed Wright on Simply Jesus. If you haven’t read it yet, I encourage you to do so.

In his new book, How God Became King, N.T. Wright explores what he calls “the forgotten story of the gospels.”

He explores the story that each gospel writer is seeking to tell. By doing so, Wright unveils a fresh way of looking at what the gospel writers actually say.

Traditionally, Christians have focused on the birth of Jesus, underscored some of His teachings, then jumped straight to His death and resurrection.

Wright turns the dial back and asks, “What about the middle, between His birth and the cross? Why is all that there, and what does it actually tell us?” Continue Reading…