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December 2018

December 31, 2018

My Top Ten Posts of 2018

My Top Ten Posts of 2018 Maybe it's just me but, it feels like as...

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...

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...

February 2018

February 14, 2018

Loneliness In The Age Of Facebook: We Have Hundreds Of “Friends,” Why Do We Feel So Alone?

"We have hundreds of friends, why do we feel so alone?" A while back I...

February 05, 2018

Millennials and Religion: Will a Lost Generation Ever Be Found?

Millennials and Religion: Will a Lost Generation Ever Be Found? In John Chapter 6 Jesus...

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...

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...

September 2017

September 18, 2017

Progressive is the New Evangelical

I’ve been calling myself a “progressive” but lately I’ve come to dislike being referred to...

September 01, 2017

Heretic or, Just Progressive?

The Progressive Evangelical Pastor: What I Mean When I Say I’m a Pastor of Sorts…...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

For Lent I Gave Up Going to Church

We’re more than half way through Lent and I’m just starting it today. But, here's...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

When You’re Failing at Life #Adulting

I've been pissed at myself as of late. You see, I'm a grown ass man, and...

July 2016

July 05, 2016

From Cathedrals to Movie Theaters: Past and Present Trends Impact on the Future of the Western Church

A little over 500 years ago we had Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Philip Melanchthon...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

The Case for Serial Monogamy

Originally, I started off this post by rhetorically asking if you knew the difference between...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Barbiesavior: A Hilarious Parody Missionary Barbie Account

First there was Socality Barbie, and now we have the Barbie Savior. She's all about...

April 08, 2016

20 Signs You Were A Youth Group Kid In The 90s

Written by Rob Fee 1. You attended multiple Acquire the Fire events. 2. The earliest...

April 07, 2016

Dealing With Doubt

20+ years... and I've never seen it. The supernatural. Healings, walking on water, people rising...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Independents Are Larger than Either Political Party

I saw posted over on Twitter the other day that independents are larger than either...

March 11, 2016

Should We Feel Shame for Viewing Pornography?

Everybody watches porn. Especially conservative Christians. I've jokingly said that 90% of adults who own...

March 02, 2016

Christianity Has Never Not Been Progressive

Christianity Has Never Not Been Progressive… For instance the Bible, it’s never not changing. I...

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...

February 23, 2016

Hurry Sickness: A Lesson on Doing Nothing

I almost died. Not really, but kind of... If you by any chance follow me...

December 2015

December 07, 2015

Interview: “Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism”

Okay, so I'm restarting this whole "podcast" thing. I'm putting the word podcast in quotes...

February 2015

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 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...

November 2014

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 01, 2014

Mars Hill Church Closing For Good…

Halloween night here in Princeton and I was just trying to hand out candy, watch...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

Is Christianity Really Dying?

[A more comprehensive look into the study, research, and it’s methods can be found here...

October 02, 2014

Pseudo-Pacifism: Why Privileged People Love Quoting MLK

[The uncensured version of this photo was doctored, original photo is of MLK showing a...