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April 2019

April 09, 2019

A Short Cut to Reconciling One’s Cognitive Dissonance Between the Church and Their Faith

A Short Cut to Reconciling One’s Cognitive Dissonance Between the Church and Their Faith A...

February 2019

February 14, 2019

“Almost Half of Practicing Christian Millennials Say Evangelism Is Wrong”

“Almost Half of Practicing Christian Millennials Say Evangelism Is Wrong” This research comes across as...

February 06, 2019

The Emerging “eXvangelical” Church

The Emerging “eXvangelical” Church If you’re a Christian and have been on Twitter within the...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

Is Cursing a Sin?

Is Cursing a Sin? Here is Why it’s Not Necessarily… In my series of “Why...

November 15, 2018

The Future of the Institutionalized Church (In Six Simple Photos)

Is This the Future of Our Church? And, I mean, is it necessarily a bad...

November 07, 2018

Three Ways Jesus Subversively Outsmarted the Religious Elite…

The Subversive Part of Jesus All of us Have Seemed to Miss You have heard...

October 2018

October 25, 2018

Our Evangelical Misconception of Grace, Mercy, and Forgiveness

The presence of grace does not imply the absence of cost; while, the presence...

October 18, 2018

Is There Forgiveness for Abusive Men [and women]? (Part I of II)

Is There Forgiveness for Abusive Men? The Internet is ruthless, these days… it's accentuated this...

September 2018

September 18, 2018

Is Getting Drunk a Sin?

Is Getting Drunk a Sin? "Mostly everybody in the Bible seemed to love wine except...

August 2018

August 23, 2018

Is White Supremacy a Core Principle of Western Theology?

Is White Supremacy a Core Principle of Western Theology? “But theologians have always had the...

August 12, 2018

Why Is the Social Gospel Considered Heresy?

Why Is the Social Gospel Considered Heresy? Some attribute the Social Gospel to Walter Rauschenbusch;...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

The Beauty of Egalitarianism Also Goes Beyond Gender…

I've asked this before but, I'll ask it again: Why is it that Deborah...

July 26, 2018

The Most Post-Christian Cities in the U.S.

The Most Post-Christian Cities in the U.S. Ever wonder what the most post-Christian cities...

June 2018

June 25, 2018

Three Fundamental Reasons Extracanonical Writings Are Deemed Insignificant…

“Until the Lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter…” If we’re...

June 17, 2018

An Honest but Supportive Critique of the Reclaiming Jesus Movement

A Supportive Critique of the Reclaiming Jesus Movement There are two things both liberals and...

June 06, 2018

What’s Keeping Progressive Christianity from Actually Progressing?

What’s Keeping Progressive Christianity from Actually Progressing? It seems so bizarre that progressives have such...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Christians Who “Love Jesus but Not the Church”

“I Love Jesus but not so much the church”? We've heard it said before: You...

May 21, 2018

5 Legitimate Reasons People No Longer Trust the Church

5 Legitimate Reasons People No Longer Trust the Church I’ve said before that “the internet...

April 2018

April 28, 2018

A Hermeneutic of Suspicion: What It Is and, Why You Should Be Suspicious if You’re Not Already…

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you...

April 25, 2018

What Happens to Your Brain When You Stop Believing in God?

We all have heard the statistics before (which I won't bore you with), but, millennials...

March 2018

March 05, 2018

Lent, It Ain’t for the Oppressed (Here’s Why)…

Lent is Not for the Oppressed... In order for any of this to make sense,...

February 2018

February 12, 2018

How the Internet is Killing American Christianity

"How the Internet is Killing American Christianity" The question is valid, “How much more do...

February 07, 2018

‪When Being An American Pastor Conflicts With Following Jesus

Most pastors professing Jesus are actually hard-working but very insecure people-pleasers preaching in accordance with...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

American Pastors that Masquerade as Angels of Light…

“13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself...

January 17, 2018

Is the Most Segregated Hour of Christian America Still Eleven O’clock on Sunday Morning?

Church hopping is a lot like seeing other people when you’re dating someone else. But,...

January 08, 2018

The Struggle of Calling People Into Spaces that Don’t Welcome the Marginalized

TL;DR This year a group of my friends decided to spend Christmas together. We're a very...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

7 Reasons Why I Choose to Continue Identifying as an Evangelical

Labels matter. Just think of your favorite brand names… what do they mean to you?...

December 25, 2017

The Evangelical Spin on the Biblical Nativity Story: Here’s Why the Evangelical Jesus is ALL Wrong

It’s bizarre, as I’ve disconnected from predominant privileged evangelicalism, how things I didn’t understand before...

December 08, 2017

Equitable Unity in the American Church: How Can We Better Empower People of Color?

Welcoming a stranger into your home and allowing them to shift things around in order...

November 2017

November 06, 2017

White Christian Exceptionalism: The Painful Irony of a Prideful Death

White Christian Exceptionalism: The Painful Irony of a Prideful Death It's a bizarre thing, in...