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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 02, 2018

What Exactly Was Jesus’ Relationship With Prostitutes…?

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

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...

November 2017

November 13, 2017

Is Premarital Sex Sinful?

I highly doubt that having safe and consensual sex, before marriage, is something God would...

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...

May 19, 2016

The Case for Serial Monogamy

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

March 2016

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...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

My “Affair” with a Youth Pastor

"It took me years to realize that my relationship with my pastor was not romantic...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

My Interview with Donald Miller

[Photo via Caleb Morris] To hear the rest subscribe here and I'll shoot it over...

October 2014

October 22, 2014

A Simple Method to Resolve an Argument

[Illustrated by Kadriya Khayrutdinova. Edit suggestions by Anne Diebel.] Every time, in the heat of...

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 07, 2014

How to Be Single and Happy

Single and happy are two words we don't often hear used in the same sentence, on...

July 03, 2014

3-things You Won’t Hear in Marriage Counseling, But Should have

So… You’re married… and you’re finding out (or know full well) just how difficult this...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Slut-Shaming, Patriarchal Abuse, & A Call to Revolt

There’s always been this weird stigma within conservative sects of Christianity that anything remotely sexual...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Interview on The John and Kathy Show Word FM

[If you'd like to fast forward a bit, my time with Kathy starts at about...

May 26, 2014

On God & Sex

On God and Sex. I’ve been having this conversation a lot with my friends lately....

May 02, 2014

Tripp and Tyler Present “Christian Tingle: A Dating Site Parody”

Find God's match for you on ChristianTingle.com. [Christian Tingle: A Dating Site Parody] Via Tripp...

April 2014

April 09, 2014

Loneliness (Part 1)

A while back I met with a mentor to talk about a then current relationship...

December 2013

December 14, 2013

Christian Girl Problems

Photo via Jon Acuff (text added)

December 13, 2013

“It’s Okay To Let Someone Go…”

Photo credit to labirdiephotography.com A friend once told me I say the phrase “it’s ok”...

October 2013

October 02, 2013

Just Friends

[Guest post by friend Laura Livingood] I am tired; tired of waiting for the right...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Risking Love

I could feel it coming to the surface… boiling up inside me, ready to spill...

August 14, 2013

Modernized Love: Finding “The One” Online

eHarmony — Okcupid — match — Christianmingle — SuperUberDesperate.com-The.List.Goes.On… We’ve all seen the commercials, talked about it with friends, gotten spammed by the...