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April 2016

April 11, 2016

Porn is a Social Justice Issue (Just Not For Many Christians): Three Solutions to the Porn Problem Christians Won’t Acknowledge

The other day Relevant Magazine posted an article titled “Porn is a Social Justice Issue.” It...

April 08, 2016

20 Signs You Were A Youth Group Kid In The 90s

Written by Rob Fee 1. You attended multiple Acquire the Fire events. 2. The earliest...

April 07, 2016

Dealing With Doubt

20+ years... and I've never seen it. The supernatural. Healings, walking on water, people rising...

April 04, 2016

Post-Easter Hangover: The Resurrection of Jesus Probably Didn’t Happen (Here’s Why)

Easter has far past, churches this past weekend were empty and silent (comparatively); the pastors were exhausted (when...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Independents Are Larger than Either Political Party

I saw posted over on Twitter the other day that independents are larger than either...

March 26, 2016

A Pentecostal Raises Three Year Old Boy From the Dead, Really? (Video)

You ever wonder why there's no video of any Christians raising people from the dead?...

March 21, 2016

Penal Substitutionary Atonement: Did God Really Kill Jesus?

I can’t help but adamantly disagree with penal substitutionary atonement, being preached to the poor...

March 16, 2016

The Religious Spectrum: Theism versus Non-Theism

Lately I've been feeling a lot of tension as to how I identify religiously speaking;...

March 11, 2016

Should We Feel Shame for Viewing Pornography?

Everybody watches porn. Especially conservative Christians. I've jokingly said that 90% of adults who own...

March 07, 2016

Reforming the Biblical Narrative

Guest Post by Nancy Hightower I grew up going to Sunday school and church every...

March 02, 2016

Christianity Has Never Not Been Progressive

Christianity Has Never Not Been Progressive… For instance the Bible, it’s never not changing. I...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

The New Moral Majority: The Misfits and The Exiled

The church isn't dying (I spoke about that here), it's the first world's conservative evangelical...

February 23, 2016

Hurry Sickness: A Lesson on Doing Nothing

I almost died. Not really, but kind of... If you by any chance follow me...

February 10, 2016

Why I’ll Be Angry if Wheaton College Does Not Fire Larycia Hawkins

“It's worth remembeing that the wedge that splits the wood is what ultimately takes the...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

Four Things You Should Know Before Reading The Bible

The other day my doctor found out that I attended seminary, she was ecstatic telling...

January 21, 2016

The War On Guns: How It’s the Same Thing as the War On Drugs

I live in the hood right now; they call it the badlands, "known for an...

January 18, 2016

Pseudo-Pacifism: Why Privileged People Love Quoting MLK

If you’re someone that is outspoken on the issue of race chances are, at one point or...

January 13, 2016

How We Fight Each Other Instead of Combatting Injustice

I think fighting injustice is, unfortunately, the willingness to step into the darkness, all while...

December 2015

December 28, 2015

Alan Manning Chambers of Exodus International: Where He is at Since Shutting Exodus Down – Episode 003

I sat down with Alan Manning Chambers, the former president of Exodus International. He shut...

December 23, 2015

White Privilege is a Myth

The biggest misunderstanding of white privilege is that simply because you are white, you then...

December 18, 2015

Christian Extremists: Is Jerry Falwell White Isis?

Can we talk about Christian extremism for a second? How it’s unnecessarily perpetuating an “us...

December 16, 2015

15 Reasons Millennials [STILL] Don’t Go to Church

I can't remember the last time I went to Church (a Sunday service). I honestly...

December 14, 2015

The Pastor’s Salary: Should Pastors Make 500K?

Here’s the question: Is it ethical for a pastor to receive a salary that is over $500,000.00?...

December 11, 2015

The Celebrity Pastor: Are Celebrity Pastors Inherently Wrong?

I've written pretty honestly on similar topics before, what re-stirred my interest in this topic...

December 09, 2015

Is Donald Trump a White Supremacist?

Trump is a symbolic representation of American buffoonery. He’s every hyperbolized reason, and then some,...

December 07, 2015

Interview: “Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism”

Okay, so I'm restarting this whole "podcast" thing. I'm putting the word podcast in quotes...

December 02, 2015

Back on Patheos: A Short Update and The Plan

Damn, so much is happening in my life right now; I shut down my site,...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

How is Race a Social Construction

It's needs to be re-emphasized that none of this is to suggest race doesn't matter,...

July 2015

July 06, 2015

Bernie Sanders: Revolutionary or Politician?

After Al Gore won the election in 2000, and then somehow lost, I disconnected for...

July 02, 2015

How You Can Help Fight Racism, And 7 Books to Read

But in my opinion, and experience so far, if someone is unwilling to read something...

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