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June 2020

June 22, 2020

If You Feel Hopeless Then, Watch This Movie Trailer

"I guarantee you that at some point everything is going to go south on you......

March 2019

March 06, 2019

Is White Supremacy Hiding Behind the Guise of “Diversity” [in US Churches]?

Is White Supremacy Hiding Behind the Guise of “Diversity”? I mean probably but also, here's...

January 2019

January 14, 2019

Things More Likely to Kill You Than an Immigrant

Things More Likely to Kill You Than an Immigrant A friend of mine said...

September 2018

September 13, 2018

If Roe v Wade is overturned, will abortion become illegal in the US?

If Roe v Wade is overturned, will abortion become illegal in the US? “January 22,...

September 09, 2018

Are God’s Race, Gender, and Nationality Contextual…?

Is God a Woman? If you Google, “What language was the NT written in…” what...

September 02, 2018

The Forgotten Meaning of Labor Day

The Meaning of Labor Day Guest Post Written By Tylor Standley Let us remember the...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

Debunking Common Myths We’ve Come to Believe About American Health Care

Debunking Common Myths We’ve Come to Believe About American Health Care Fun Fact: We’re not...

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...

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...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

Refuting the Most Common Arguments Against Immigration

Refuting the Most Common Arguments Against Immigration… Since 1996 the federal government has reportedly deported...

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...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

Breaking the Cycle of a Toxic and Meaningless Negativity

Having been in and out of both progressive and conservative circles, communities, schools, and churches...

April 19, 2018

Are You Being Straw Manned?

Whatever happened to that "liberal" part of the Christian movement that was actually about doing...

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,...

March 01, 2018

Gun Control and the Power of Disinformation

This tweet caught my eye and inspired my next two posts... In some cases, it’s...

February 2018

February 01, 2018

For Rachael Denhollander, and Abuse Victims, The Cost of Following Jesus is Apparently Being Silenced, Exiled and then Isolated by His “Followers”…

“There is an abhorrent lack of knowledge for the damage and devastation that sexual assault...

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 15, 2018

Anesthesiological Heresy: How our American Gospel Segregates Us and then Keeps Us From Serving the Poor and the Powerless

In late August in the summer of 1968 a young civil rights activist took stage...

December 2017

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 13, 2017

Revolution of Niceness: Differentiating Between Good and Nice

I'm not sure anyone else within white Americanized Christianity, is saying it so I will: The...

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 08, 2017

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

If this were a paper for a class, my thesis would say something along the...

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...

October 2017

October 16, 2017

When Is It Okay to Deport Immigrants?

Let’s Talk About Deportation... Recently, there were 500 undocumented citizens arrested around the U.S. within...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

A Dissipating Rage Against the Machine (Correctly Dealing With Anger Towards the Church)

Dealing with an anger towards the "church"... Joy is not something handed to you; joy...

July 18, 2017

If We Know How to End Poverty, Why Has Poverty Not Ended?

It’s said that 45 million US citizens suffer from abject poverty; ”13.1 million children in...

June 2017

June 22, 2017

The American Church and Our Ties to White Nationalism

To Separate the Institutionalized American Church From White Nationalism is… …like removing the beating heart...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

Who Would Jesus Bomb: Is Violence Ever a Means to Effective Justice?

Who Would Jesus Bomb? I’m rarely on Facebook these days, but, recently, I hopped on...

September 2016

September 01, 2016

On Lynching Colin Kaepernick

I'm having the hardest time fully understanding why our nation is so incredibly outraged over Colin...