Category Postcards from Palookaville

Perhaps I am alone in this but maybe, just maybe, there are others out there who are fed up of hearing just how hard the ministry is.  Indeed, the ‘ministry is hard and dangerous’ style of writing is almost a…

Perhaps I am alone in this but maybe, just maybe, there are others out there who are fed up of hearing just how hard the ministry is.  Indeed, the ‘ministry is hard and dangerous’ style of writing is almost a…

Over at The Housewife Theologian, ‘Nunchucks’ has posted a guest column by Persis Lorenti reflecting on a recent Mortification of Spin, specifically on the question of why women in abusive relationships are often reluctant to ask for help. The sad…

Over at The Housewife Theologian, ‘Nunchucks’ has posted a guest column by Persis Lorenti reflecting on a recent Mortification of Spin, specifically on the question of why women in abusive relationships are often reluctant to ask for help. The sad…

The latest Mortification of Spin: Bully Pulpit is now available, dealing with the apparent inability of the evangelical Christian world to understand how public criticism of public teaching works. If you are uncomfortable with the idea that one can criticize…

The latest Mortification of Spin: Bully Pulpit is now available, dealing with the apparent inability of the evangelical Christian world to understand how public criticism of public teaching works. If you are uncomfortable with the idea that one can criticize…

I had great fun last week attending the Reformation Worship Conference at Midway Presbyterian Church near Atlanta.  There was one terrifying moment when Irfon Hughes approached me and spoke in his native language.  Not having heard the Dark Tongue of…

I had great fun last week attending the Reformation Worship Conference at Midway Presbyterian Church near Atlanta.  There was one terrifying moment when Irfon Hughes approached me and spoke in his native language.  Not having heard the Dark Tongue of…

The latest Mortification of Spin is up in which we are joined in the Underground Bunker once again by Aimee ‘Dueling Banjos’ Byrd, one of the founders of the recent Reformed Chick Lit. movement which looks set to become a…

The latest Mortification of Spin is up in which we are joined in the Underground Bunker once again by Aimee ‘Dueling Banjos’ Byrd, one of the founders of the recent Reformed Chick Lit. movement which looks set to become a…