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March 2016

March 01, 2016

Fear Will Be the Big Winner on Super Tuesday

It's Super Tuesday. Lots of people are voting today. And if I had to put...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Expansive Love in the Church: On Being a Dad and a Father, a Priest and a Parishioner

Peanut butter smudges against the screen of my smartphone, and I simultaneously mumble a...

January 2016

January 08, 2016

Not Dead Yet: Saving Sunday School By Returning to its Justice Roots

For many churches, Sunday School programs are in a tailspin. Bloggers have argued that we...

January 04, 2016

Inconsistent Scripture: Why the Bible’s Errors Are Actually Good News for Christians

I still remember the first time I realized that not only were there two creation stories in...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Why I Bless Halloween Costumes at Church

I love Halloween. Always have. I loved Halloween as a teenager so much that I...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

Making Room at Christ’s Table: The Gift of Progressive Christianity

You might underestimate how large the Christian umbrella is. This simple sentence appeared in red...

August 2013

August 21, 2013

Stories, Not Sterilized Facts: How We Pass on Faith

As part of the Patheos Passing on the Faith conversation, I decided to invite my...

June 2013

June 05, 2013

The Patron Saint of Poop: How My Kids Fell in Love with the Saints

Like most of my good ideas, this one happened by accident. Four days into the...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Sleeping Through Storms: Rethinking Theodicy, Natural Disasters and God’s Omnipotence

God is not all-powerful. At least, not in the ways we tend to define power....

May 15, 2013

Questions Not Answers: My Journey from Journalism to the Priesthood

In college, I thought that by the time I was 32, I would be working...

April 2013

April 15, 2013

Keeping Silence in Tragedy: In the Aftermath of Explosions

Violence and tragedy has again struck. And it is hard to know what to say,...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

Where God Weeps: Sandy Hook and the Myth of Redemptive Violence

God weeps. That, if anything, has been the primary theological response of Americans in the...

December 12, 2012

Born to Die?: Why the Cross Doesn’t Belong at Christmas

Yesterday, I passed a church sign that proclaimed Christmas was the story of a baby...

April 2012

April 10, 2012

When Resurrection Happens: Scenes from a Protested Holy Week

Last week, I posted an essay on Protesting Holy Week. A lot of people read...