by bradhuebert | Dec 16, 2013 | Christmas, heroes, Jesus Christ, Uncategorized
Way back in a primordial garden called Eden, our original mother reached for the forbidden fruit. Slipping into a serpent’s guise, Satan seduced her—seduced us, really—to reject God. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in...
by bradhuebert | Nov 28, 2013 | Christmas, evangelism, Faith, Jesus Christ, Uncategorized
“Hey, let’s remember the reason for the season.” That’s what Christians all over North America will say to themselves and each other as we march through advent this year. Which is great. But what is the reason we’re supposed to remember? Seriously now: What is...
by bradhuebert | Nov 18, 2013 | church, Faith, geek, movies, Uncategorized
The church doesn’t fare well in popular fiction. Think about cultural stereotypes of the church: Church is typically portrayed as hopelessly out of touch and naive—here I call Ned Flanders to the stand—or as an evil regime oppressing the rights and freedoms of...
by bradhuebert | Nov 5, 2013 | Faith, heroes, Uncategorized
In all the great stories, would be heroes must wrestle with the difference between reasons and excuses. Life is good, life rolls on—until it doesn’t. Until a crisis looms and a summons is uttered. And then we either rise into our calling or suckle our excuses....
by bradhuebert | Nov 4, 2013 | Faith, geek, geek faith tribe, Uncategorized
Hey, Geek-Faithers, have I got a treat for you. My friend and fellow geek writer Sandra Dimas just landed an exclusive interview with none other than Weird Al Yankovic! Sandra is awesome, partly because she and I share a philosophy that only the parts of us that need...
by bradhuebert | Oct 23, 2013 | Faith, Jesus Christ, theology, Uncategorized
A few days ago while driving my daughter Glory back from a soccer game, shooting the breeze like fathers and daughters do, she asked a pretty wild question: “Dad, who is the antiChrist?” Traditionally, the antiChrist is seen as an end-times figure, the...
