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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 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...

May 2018

May 02, 2018

What Exactly Was Jesus’ Relationship With Prostitutes…?

What Exactly Was Jesus’ Relationship With Prostitutes…? “Christians need to decide if Jesus had genitals,...

April 2018

April 19, 2018

Are You Being Straw Manned?

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

January 2018

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 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...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

Gay and Progressive at Liberty University

"This is what it’s like to be in a minority attending a school built by...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

Understanding Why Christians are Anti-Trans

I honestly don’t understand this debate over whether or not those who identify as transgender...

May 16, 2016

John Piper Joins the #BlackLivesMatter movement!?

I mean, not really, but kind of... Piper's opening is predictably cringeworthy, but his conclusion is...

May 02, 2016

Please, Stop Inviting Your Friends to Church

Written by Stephen Schmidt We’ve got some big problems in the Church these days. That’s...

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...

March 2015

March 13, 2015

Ex-Ex-Gay

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

February 2015

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...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Evangelicals For Marriage Equality

[Photo By: BEN CHRISMAN] Churches are splitting, congregants are leaving, parents are abusing, and denominations are...

September 2014

September 08, 2014

DeChristianizing: Chatting with Conservatives

Lem, as you'll hear in the video, professes to be an evangelical, while Brent is slightly...

September 01, 2014

Theological Abuse: The Problem is Not Mark Driscoll

Hypothetically speaking, if Mark Driscoll did in fact decide to resign from Mars Hill Church,...

August 2014

August 14, 2014

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...

August 06, 2014

10 Reasons I Love Pope Francis

I'm not Catholic, I'm barely protestant these days, and I don't really ever plan on...

August 04, 2014

Mark Driscoll vs. The Internet

Spoiler Alert: Mark Driscoll is losing. I don't have a TV - but after a...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Dear Pastor Who Keeps Emailing Me…

I think there is the widespread assumption that I left the Church because I, personally,...

July 28, 2014

How The Internet Killed [Westernized] Christianity

The question is valid, "How much more do we have to take from the church...

June 2014

June 16, 2014

Is Being Gay a Sin? | 4 Things to Consider Before You Answer

Is Being Gay a Sin? | 4 Things to Consider Before You Answer: Guest Post...

June 13, 2014

Dear Men: A Much Needed Lesson on Menstruation

[Dear Men] I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again: Menstruation is caused...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

A Crumbling Dynasty: White Evangelicalism

It feels almost as if the media is lobbing the church pitches to either (a)...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

Moving Past Sexual Orientation

For the longest time, I considered myself a gay celibate Christian. It was uneasy for...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Quitting Christianity.

I recently stumbled upon a quote from Anne Rice, who in 2010 decided to “quit...