Matt Johnson
17 Years at Mars Hill: Life After Disillusionment
I’m glad to be off the energy-drink-Christianity bullet train, and my overall health is better off for it.
The Scene-Police Punker in All of Us
Every couple of years I get bitten by the nostalgia bug and revisit musical obsessions […]
What Punk Rock Taught Me About Public Prayer
In 1972, the old-school rock critic Lester Bangs said Black Sabbath was the world’s first […]
Confessions of a Sad, Tweeting Batman On Word-Porn
What happens when you mix equal parts family crisis, a comedic coping mechanism, and an […]
What Charlie Brown and a Curmudgeonly Drummer Boy Taught Me About …
Ah, Christmastime. The season of joy, goodwill, and cheer. For some, it’s strained family relations, […]
It’s So Beautiful, It Hurts My Feelings: Wayne White’s …
I love me some Netflix streaming. But at times, that gargantuan library of B-movies can […]
Forde Friday: On the Death of Self
I was thinking this week about how Christians tend to think about “dying to self”. […]
Forde Friday: The Prison of Free-Lunch-Think Versus The Gospel
Gerhard Forde, Justification by Faith: A Matter of Death and Life, pg. 24 The gospel […]
The Cross As Moral Striving?
Bad PR dies hard. Somehow, the word got out that Christianity is about moral reform […]
Re-Offending Taxmen and the Outrage of Grace
Here’s a zinger on the scandal of grace from Robert Farrar Capon’s Between Noon and […]
Forde Friday: In Defense of Daily Personal Drownings
Being hung up on personal spiritual progress is a problem. Why? Because it’s an indication […]
Forde Friday: Spiritual Progress = “Shut Up And Listen” …
Here’s another zinger about our misguided ideas of spiritual progress from our favorite late Lutheran […]
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