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June 2015

June 25, 2015

When Will We Admit that American Christianity is the Same Thing as White Supremacy?

[Photo Credit: Jeff Hood] Watching the news and hearing about the repeated acts of violence...

June 15, 2015

Making Sense of Rachel Dolezal’s Backlash And Why She Faked Being Black

By now you’ve probably heard of Rachel Dolezal, this morning she announced her resignation as...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

Reframing the Narrative By Asserting your Humanity

In the past few days I've been repeatedly asked the same two questions: Where is...

May 01, 2015

I Want To Be An Activist

“I want to be an activist.” These were the words of Henry, a six year...

April 2015

April 27, 2015

Martin Luther King Jr. on His Biggest Mistake

"Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | In 1964, after he...

April 26, 2015

Billy Graham’s Ted Talk: Technology, faith and human shortcomings

April 24, 2015

Creflo Dollar and Every Other Mega-Church

Here's my question: "How is Creflo Dollar's request for a $65 million jet any different than...

April 23, 2015

Searching for Church

I never thought that I would be one of “those” people, writing one of “those”...

April 22, 2015

My “Affair” with a Youth Pastor

"It took me years to realize that my relationship with my pastor was not romantic...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Dear Young Men of Color: Overcoming Oppression

[Image is a screenshot from Fong Tran’s spoken word titled, “Dear Young Men of Color,”...

March 13, 2015

Ex-Ex-Gay

I don’t know if there was a single moment when I realized that I had...

March 09, 2015

Lyndon Baines Johnson Recordings on Selma

Lyndon Baines Johnson Recordings on Selma: This film collects archival material from the LBJ Library, the Miller...

March 02, 2015

My Interview with Donald Miller

[Photo via Caleb Morris] To hear the rest subscribe here and I'll shoot it over...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

The Christian Delusion: Why Stay When Something Better is Being Offered?

A few days ago I was listening to this podcast called "This American Life," if...

February 10, 2015

Progressive Christianity: Progressive, but still super racist

[This is of course not about all progressives. There are many amazing progressives not-so-well-known and...

February 09, 2015

The Worship Leader: Marginalized because I was gay #TheDechurched

[Photo from @dankadanka] #StoriesFromTheDechurched is a series with no end date in mind collecting stories from those who have...

February 02, 2015

The Ambitious Woman: Challenging the Status Quo #StoriesFromTheDechurched

#StoriesFromTheDechurched is a series with no end date in mind collecting stories from those who have left the...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Doubting God #StoriesFromTheDechurched

#StoriesFromTheDechurched is a series with no end date in mind collecting stories from those who have left the...

January 15, 2015

Mega-Church Pastor that Allegedly said “N-Word”

The "n-word" is one of the most divisive and emotionally charged words within our U.S. context. I think social...

January 13, 2015

Wounded, but Healing

“I'm at a point in my life where everything is falling apart and everything is coming together at the...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

The Violence of Demanding Peaceful Protest: The Missteps of Clergy in Ferguson

"We don't want anyone getting arrested or lashing out in anger. It is your job...

December 07, 2014

Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus

I think what's made Ben's blog "blow-up" [in a good way] is 1) how incredibly...

December 04, 2014

Indifference is the Opiate of the Privileged

I'm not sure if religion is the opiate of the masses but I'm convinced that indifference is...

December 01, 2014

12 Things I Wish Racist People Understood

These days there are very few people I engage with on the topic of race that...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

“Your Silence Is Deafening.”

There’s a Martin Luther King Jr. quote being passed around on the internet that reads,...

November 18, 2014

My Interview on the John and Kathy Show

It's always a pleasure to be on the John and Kathy Show as we might...

November 13, 2014

Exorcism Ruined by Phone Call

Exorcism Ruined by Phone Call... I think this is set up or satire maybe -...

November 12, 2014

Overgeneralizing Example

As someone who tweets on topics having to do with faith, religion, justice, and theology...

November 10, 2014

Escaping Evangelicalism: The Process of Healing from Spiritual and Theological Abuse

I don’t have the strength to perpetually pretend as if I’m someone I’m not. Some...

November 02, 2014

I Went Back to Church

I went back to church this week. It's been close to a year since I've...

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