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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...

December 2018

December 06, 2018

An Irreprehensible Kind of Grace…

An Irreprehensible Kind of Grace... Something that might disturb ss “law-abiding-conservative-Chik-Fil-A-eating-evangelical-folk”... I never fully understood...

October 2018

October 09, 2018

The Monetization of Mass Shootings: What Happens When Industries Start to Profit From Mass Shootings?

The Monetization of Mass Shootings: What Happens When Industries Start to Profit From Mass Shootings?...

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...

September 05, 2018

Cynicism in the Age of Disinformation…

“These are paid protestors folks… protestors are paid a lot of money by the DNC.”...

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...

June 2018

June 03, 2018

Why I Don’t Care About What Roseanne Barr or Samantha Bee Said…

Why I Don’t Care About What Roseanne Barr or Samantha Bee Said... "Rome is burning...

April 2018

April 23, 2018

On Loving Difficult People And, Being Loved as a “Difficult Person”…

Saying “difficult people/person,” it’s both redundant and untrue. Because, while we’re each uniquely different, none...

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 07, 2018

6 Tips On How Married Christians Can Embrace Single Adults

Written by Christena Cleveland (Note: Since many pastors, church leaders, and readers of this blog...

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...

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 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...

October 2017

October 10, 2017

Imposing Order Into An Otherwise Chaotic World

Imposing Order Into Chaos Things aren’t good. Well, if you’ve turned on the TV recently...

September 2017

September 27, 2017

Weapons of Mass Distraction: When People Throw Hate You’re Being Effective at Something

It’s too easy to get sucked into the negativity that is so prevalent in this...

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...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

What Happens When You Lose Your Religion?

What Happens When You Lose Your Religion? Here’s the thing, when “Worship services begin to...

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 22, 2017

Returning To Sunday (Part 1 of 100)

Returning To Sunday (Part 1 of 100)... I've been church shopping. There's so much in...

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...

July 09, 2017

A Brief Note on People Who Deliberately Try to Bring You Down

The other day I was meeting with a friend and we were just chatting about...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

Heroin Addictions And Why I’m Still Not Married…

“As we all know-or should know-we can’t aim straight for happiness; rather, happiness is an...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

The Cost of Joy: “But We Rejoice in Our Sufferings…”

Joy is not the absence of pain; it’s the presence of meaning and intimacy [regardless...

April 24, 2017

“But We Rejoice in Our Sufferings…”

Just keepin' it real, but, the past two years, life has just completely and utterly...

March 2017

March 11, 2017

Failing Forward: A Lesson Learned From Repeatedly Learning Nothing

This morning I felt as if I was Tom Hanks character from the Cast Away...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

The Weirdest Christian Belief I Still Stand By: Heaven is For Real

So, here’s the thing, as much as my theology over the course of the past...

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 28, 2016

Identity: Who You Are Is Not Defined By What They Say

I don't know about you, but, I struggle with insecurity. Like, crippling amounts of deeply embedded...