Archives
Looking for something in particular? Well, you've come to the right place. Here you can dig through my extensive archives by year, month or title; whatever floats your boat. It's organized in reverse chronological order.
2012: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2011: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2006: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2005: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2004: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
January 2012
- Who Needs Apologetics?
- "Evangelism in the Dark" published in Immerse Journal
- Introducing: Recommended Reads
December 2011
November 2011
August 2011
May 2011
April 2011
February 2011
January 2011
November 2010
- A Sermon on Christ the King
- My brother is an atheist and sometimes we talk about religion (Part 3)
- My brother is an atheist and sometimes we talk about religion (Part 2)
- My brother is an atheist and sometimes we talk about religion (Part 1)
October 2010
- Why the Bible Mustn't be Read at Face Value: A Response to Justin Wise
- "The Gift of Love": A sermon preached at the funeral of Logan McAninch
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
December 2009
- Books I read in 2009
- Advent explorations: Chapter 2 of Harold Schweizer's "On Waiting"
- I'm giving away two copies of "Watch For The Light"
- Advent explorations: Chapter 1 of Harold Schweizer's "On Waiting"
- Audio interview with Andrew Root, author of "Relationships Unfiltered"
- Advent explorations: Karl Rahner on Advent
- Advent explorations: The tragedy of Advent
November 2009
- Advent explorations: Martin Luther on Advent
- Advent explorations: Luther Seminary's free Advent devotional
- Advent explorations
- Hauerwas on Advent
- Dead simple group texting for ministry with Tatango
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
- Sullivan on religious authority
- Getting on in a post-ELCA Churchwide Assembly world
- Andrew Root's new book, "Relationships Unfiltered"
- Responses to approval of “Human Sexuality: Gift & Trust”
- ELCA approves "Human Sexuality: Gift & Trust"
- What is youth ministry?
- On the sovereignty of God
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
- Anger as entertainment
- The Monday brief
- ?
- Looking for help in planning a spiritual retreat
- The Monday brief
- Enter photography
February 2009
- The Monday brief
- FREE and easy group texting for youth ministry with Tatango
- The Monday brief
- How can theology transform the church?
- The Monday brief
January 2009
- Extravaganza workshop resources
- Are "Celebration of Life" services appropriate?
- The Columbus Huddle
- The Monday brief
- Ireland: Days 3 & 4
- Ireland: Day 2
- Ireland: Getting there
December 2008
- The Monday brief
- Little Drummer Boy
- The Monday brief: Ireland edition
- Interview with Mike Crawford (Part 2)
- The Pledge of Allegiance
- The Monday brief
November 2008
- Interview with Mike Crawford (Part 1)
- The Monday brief
- On Hold
- Review: Mike Crawford, "Songs from Jacob's Well"
- The Monday brief
- The Monday brief
- The 2008 evangelical vote: A retrospective
- The counter-productivity of denominational official statements
- The Monday brief
October 2008
- Happy Reformation Day!
- The Monday brief: Secret Siblings edition
- Reclaiming Paul, days two and three
- Reclaiming Paul, day one
- The Monday brief
- The Monday brief: Flub A Dub Chub edition
- 2008 Emergent Theological Conversation: Reclaiming Paul
- The Monday brief
- Foreclosure from a repo point of view
September 2008
- Vote for JakeBouma.com in the Iowa Web Awards!
- The Monday brief: Extravaganza edition
- The Monday brief
- David Foster Wallace on self-centeredness
- 1 Corinthians 13 paraphrased for youth workers
- The Monday brief
- A trip down yearbook lane...
- The Monday brief
August 2008
- Sermon: "The Story of Your Life"
- A closer look at the declining membership of the ELCA
- A look at the declining membership of the ELCA
- How I use Evernote to organize my youth ministry
- Discipleship and the Kingdom
July 2008
June 2008
- Obama and evangelicals: Summer of love
- Creative Worship Tour
- Transcript of N.T. Wright interview on The Colbert Report
- My (recent) life, in pictures
- Are evangelicals abandoning their political agenda?
- Check me out on 99.5 FM's "Local Beat"
- The Blog of the Lord
May 2008
- News bloat
- Interview with Michael Kelly, author of "The Tough Sayings of Jesus II"
- The Divine Conspiracy
- I'm going to seminary (kind of)
- Toilet theology
- Flickr + God
- Bible book removal hypothetical
April 2008
- Getting a foot in the door
- Type-ified
- Why I do youth ministry
- Subversive Blogger Awards, round two
- Shift conference: Complexity and simplicity
- What?
- Blogging from Chicago this week
- Do-it-yourself emergent
- How to move your iTunes music library from a PC to a Mac without losing metadata (ratings, play counts, album art, etc.)
- A new era
March 2008
- MLB 2008 predictions
- Help me make a theology mixtape
- Easter and environmentalism
- A Holy Saturday experience
- When Good Friday is just okay
- Damn.
- JakeBouma.com turns 3 years old
- A tale of two computers (or, I'm getting a MacBook Pro)
- Public library hypothetical
- "How to pray" - my first sermon outline ever
February 2008
- New spectacles
- Out of context theology winner
- Serendipitous stock image sighting
- Ben Folds, Undeclared, and ICCA
- JakeBouma.com hits the bigtime! (thanks, Ken Silva)
- The 123 book meme
- Out of context theology (A contest)
- I am Jack Shephard
- Poll: Amazon Wishlists*
- 3 fantastic and totally unrelated videos
January 2008
- Red planet hypothetical
- Project Runway, high fashion, and philosophy
- Dying Stars reviews
- Four must-see documentaries about teens (or, How to fully understand teenagers in under 8 hours)
- Desktop
- TechStars and the gestation of a killer idea
- I'm giving away
2030 FREE copies of Dying Stars - Wait staff hypothetical
- Interview with Tony Jones, author of "The New Christians" (Part 2)
- Hypothetical Thursday
- Comfort for the devil
- Interview with Tony Jones, author of "The New Christians" (Part 1)
- A "Lost" sprint
- Twitter & the Iowa caucuses
December 2007
- Best of 2007
- Blogging goals for 2008
- Exploring Relevant Faith
- I played the 'Candidate match game' and won
- Review: Web Hosting Choice
- H. Res. 847 is absolutely absurd
- Encouraging a growth mind-set in students
- Christmas List, Yo
- The Primal Teen: Book review
- The Daily Scribe
- Tweet Better: 9 Unconventional (and Slightly Badass) Ways to use Twitter
November 2007
- William Sloane Coffin, "A Politically Engaged Spirituality"
- The Subversive Blogger Awards
- Thanksgiving update
- Cat owners, this one's for you
- Donald Miller - "Story"
- The "Thirty pages per day" project
- The Facebook song
- Reflections on the National Youth Workers Convention
- NYWC '07 Day 4: A new vision
- NYWC '07 Day 3: New faces
- NYWC ‘07 Day 2: Mixed feelings
- NYWC '07 Day 1: Sensory overload
October 2007
- Blogging from the National Youth Workers Convention
- Four point oh!
- The JakeBouma.com 4.0 prize giveaway
- Blog Action Day - Making effective transportation choices
- Blogging through a book: Everything Must Change (Part 1)
- Blogging through a book: Everything Must Change (Intro)
- Another JakeBouma.com redesign is in the works
- The Final Season
- Postmodern suspicion and Matt Nathanson's "Heartbreak World"
September 2007
- Introducing my first youth group
- Are you suffering from Heroes hysteria?
- Free entry into a $4000 prize draw
- Everything I need to know I learned from the emerging church*
- Music of the month
- I've been Simpsonized
- Google Reader (or, confession of a late adopter)
August 2007
July 2007
- Jake likes to...
- Bear Grylls is my hero
- Ninth grade vocab list
- Prepare Me
- "Stuck In My Heart" on the radio
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
- Shane Hipps on blogging
- Spring break
- Cracking the Digg comment code: An experiment
- Spring break is for flicks
February 2007
- AWOL Apparel
- Twenty three
- Undeclared in the ICCA (again)
- T9 is so book
- Bitter cold
- On writing a book
January 2007
- Spring semester classes
- Calling it "The Sunshine State" was a good choice.
- Nordic Choir tour
- The year in review
December 2006
- A Parting Blessing
- Previous employment experience:
- Richard Dawkins, Atheism, and Christianity: Part 2
- Heroes hysteria
November 2006
- Yukon Cornelius?
- Richard Dawkins, Atheism, and Christianity
- Titleflow, a playlist
- You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
- Uh, you can reach me here...
- The importance of shameless self-promotion
- Long lost gems
October 2006
- Emerging church is the kitchen
- Senior paper shift
- Three highly questionable food purchases at Wal-Mart
- A photoblog
- How (Not) to Speak of God
- Popped collars
- It's official: Dying Stars on iTunes
September 2006
- I am a television junkie
- The Chi Rho cross
- Survivor fever
- Music of the month
- Confession of a closet gamer
- The return of the scruff
August 2006
- Fall semester
- Five quotes
- R.I.P. Little Red, 1989-2006
- Mad Hot Ballroom
- Regarding the fall from the trailer and the subsequent two day stay in an out-of-state hospital
July 2006
June 2006
- Superman is my personal Lord and Savior
- A deluge of new music
- Rouse and Rosebud
- Blogging Rosebud
- Back to Rosebud
- Baseball theology
- Show at Java G's on Friday
- Whatever happened to Dying Stars?
May 2006
- Is it any wonder?
- Dismissing the Da Vinci Code
- Theses
- The 3 Step Plan for Surefire Success*
- People in the streets singing "Revolution"
- Music of the month
April 2006
- Allergy relief tea
- The Secret Message of Jesus
- New music
- The Jake & Tom Podcast returns
- Fibonacci poems
- Digressions
- Friday linkfest
- Coke Bl?k
- Badiou on immigration
- Friday linkfest
- Library Thing
- Sold!
March 2006
- Spring break
- Soundtrack to my life
- Nickel Creek
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Purpose driven youth ministry
- JakeBouma.com's first birthday
- A postmodern canon
- Let the madness begin
- So many books...
- Loose ends
- Tony Jones forum follow-up
- Tony Jones
- Blast from the past
- The Quiet Table
February 2006
- Some pictures
- What is the emerging church?
- A facebook birthday
- Thanks, Peter
- Twenty two
- Champagne birthday
- Shows this weekend
- This is getting old, but...
- Four things
- The plane and the conveyor belt, pt. 3
- The plane and the conveyor belt, pt. 2
- The plane and the conveyor belt
- To Own a Dragon recall/delay
- Podcasts
- Bonhoeffer centennial
- Pact
- Spring semester
- And we're back!
January 2006
- To Own a Dragon
- Friday linkfest
- Books for sale
- A weekend to remember
- What's your theological worldview?
- JakeBouma.com 2.75 goes live
- JakeBouma.com 3.0 is so close
- New layout coming soon...
- (The return of) Friday linkfest
- Early "Dying Stars" Preview
- Album Progress
- The Year of the Book
- Studio Day One
- JakeBouma.com 2005 Review
December 2005
- Cologne
- The Meaning of Christmas
- Dining Contract
- Break Overview
- Faith Journey
- Winter Wonderland
- Upcoming Attractions
- The Jake & Tom Podcast: Week 3
- Coffee
- Firefox Q&A with Dad
- How Fitting...
- AIM Triton
- The Jake & Tom Podcast: Week 3
- Friday Linkfest
- Snowfall
November 2005
- Music of the Month
- The Jake & Tom Podcast: Week 2
- Dying Stars EP
- Christmastime w/Jake & Tom
- How Much Is My Blog Worth?
- Podcast FAQ
- First JakeBouma.com Podcast
- New Song: Dying Stars
- Thank You
- Friday Linkfest
- Conference Presentation(?)
- Intelligent Design
- Before and After
- Riots in Paris, Cont'd
- Christmas Music
- In Christ Alone
- Emerging in Blue Like Jazz
- No Shave November
- Riots in Paris
- Worship in Wisconsin
- Friday Linkfest
- January Schmanuary
October 2005
- Fall Foliage
- Friday Linkfest
- Undeclared in the ICCA
- Music of the Month
- Friday Linkfest
- Fall Break: Update 2
- Fall Break: An Update
- Fall Break
- Late Night Vocation Binge
- New Song: Freefall
- Blue Merle
- Friday Linkfest
- Gilead: A Novel
- Damascus Avenue
- The Gospel
- Inspiration from at Home
- Inspiration from the Road
September 2005
- The Emerging Church
- Review: A Collision, David Crowder Band
- Friday Linkfest
- Writing a Song w/John Mayer, Part 2
- In Search of Vocation: Course Description
- The Day Forever Died
- Friday Linkfest
- Music of the Month
- Number Solitaire
- Thanks for helping w/the kids
- The Fray
- Katrina and God
- The Jake Bouma Band
August 2005
- Hurricane Katrina
- Vision
- It's A Start
- In Search of Self and Vocation
- Sounds of Summer
- Recently
- Writing A Song with John Mayer
July 2005
- Stuck In My Heart
- The Fender John Mayer Signature Model Stratocaster
- Baseball Devotional
- Needless Lodging Woes
- Genocide in Sudan
- More on John Mayer...
- The John Mayer Trio
- A Farewell, A Film, and Furds
- Books, Movies, and a Wedding
June 2005
- The "About" Page
- Rosebud in Review, Part 3
- Rosebud in Review, Part 2
- Rosebud in Review, Part 1
- Soon to Depart
- Page Update/Test Post #1
May 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
- Back to School (Almost)
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Selçuk, Turkey
- Bergama, Turkey
- Kalambaka, Greece
- Athens, Greece - Day 4
- Athens, Greece
- Amsterdam Schiphol, Holland