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Four Questions to Ask Before Diving Into a Crunchy Trend

Four Questions to Ask Before Diving Into a Crunchy Trend

My wife and I tend to be pretty healthy people. With my background in healthcare, and her background in being analytical, we’ve spent a lot of time examining health trends and learning about the ways that food interacts with our...

Spotify is (almost) Saving Humanity

Spotify is (almost) Saving Humanity

I'm listening to classical music. Vivaldi's Four Seasons to be exact. It's beautiful, engaging music. Rising, cresting, falling; painting pictures in my mind as I work. Somewhere between the swirling of the fall leaves and the...

I Love Mars Hill, and I left the Church

I Love Mars Hill, and I left the Church

My wife and I are in the process of changing churches and it's not because they've been involved with a sexual abuse scandal, or even because their theology is off- It's because Mars Hill, inadvertently promotes an institutional...

How Christian Legalism Creates a Culture of Sexual Abuse

How Christian Legalism Creates a Culture of Sexual Abuse

“Jesus doesn’t need your reputation! Keeping things in the dark and allowing souls to be destroyed by abuse, that shames the Gospel. Jesus is all about transparency.” - Boz Tchividjian When I started writing this article, I...

5 Tips for Young Leaders & Why They Don’t Matter

5 Tips for Young Leaders & Why They Don’t Matter

I love business, and I love starting companies. When I was 16, I started a site called, Cross-Eyed Blog and Webzine. As time went on, that site merged into Latitude821, (based around Romans 8:21) and we made a strong run with a...

5 Ways to Spot a Healthy Church

5 Ways to Spot a Healthy Church

Recent studies have shown that the American church is in decline, and America will soon follow the UK and become post-Christian (if it's not already). However, in this time, God has poured out His grace on many churches in...

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