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April 2023

April 24, 2023

Ultimately, It Was Love

My Annual Conference saw 264 congregations leave last Saturday. Love let them go. It was...

April 20, 2023

Earth Day Virtue

This Earth Day, I am reading, for the first time, A Sand County Almanac. I know....

April 17, 2023

Communing With Judas

It is a common holy week theme. Can you sit with your Judas? Do we...

April 11, 2023

3 Days Is All It Takes

Why did Jonah need to stay in the belly of the fish for 3 days?...

April 06, 2023

No, Jesus Did Not Walk Out of the Tomb

The canonical gospels never show Jesus walking out of his tomb. Yet, popular memes on...

April 03, 2023

Free To Love

Paul says "For freedom Christ has set us free." (Galatians 5:1) I for one am...

March 2023

March 30, 2023

Enough For Palm Sunday

Enough. Fed up. Tired of it. Disgust overload. Guns are the drug of choice for...

March 27, 2023

Seminaries Are Not The Problem

Seminaries get blame for not training clergy appropriately. The blame comes from a certain segment...

March 23, 2023

4 Reasons Why You Need A Church

Progressive Christians do not feel at home in many churches anymore. There are reasons to...

March 21, 2023

The Problem of Forgiveness and “Women Talking”

I finally saw the film Women Talking. I highly recommend it to anyone believing forgiveness is...

March 16, 2023

The Call To The Wild

Hearing the divine call would affirm so much for us. People ask me when I...

March 09, 2023

White Male Flattery

Flattery will sometimes get you closer to your goal. How many times has a new...

March 06, 2023

The Gift of Community

Community is a gift. True community is based on some sort of gift economy. It...

March 02, 2023

I Don’t Want to Punch Nazis

Punch-a-Nazi is the battle cry of many on the political left in America. "Kill a...

February 2023

February 27, 2023

The Problem of Biblical Literalists

All Biblical literalists have a problem. They cannot teach us anything. It took me a...

February 23, 2023

Lent And Life

Lent is another word for Spring. I was surprised to learn this fact. Somehow, I...

February 20, 2023

Out Of The Chapel: The Problem of Youth Revival

The round-the-clock 11 day revival worship in Hughes Auditorium has ended by order of the...

February 16, 2023

Populist Religion

People forget George Wallace was a populist. He is known as a white racist segregationist...

February 13, 2023

Skunk Mating Season

It is that time of year again. We are in skunk mating season. Love is...

February 09, 2023

Divine Rage

Divine Rage? Yes. I am reading Valerie Kaur's memoir See No Stranger with a group of...

February 07, 2023

The Culture War And The Gospel

The culture war sells and destroys. It is a war after all. Wars are meant...

February 04, 2023

Movement Mythology

The overused word movement should be exorcised from our religious vocabulary. But if I cannot...

January 2023

January 30, 2023

My Sister, My Brother, My Family

A boy said, "There are people who belong to the devil." He hastily added, "No...

January 26, 2023

God, the Story Teller

Human beings are story tellers. If there is a difference between humans and the great...

January 23, 2023

A High View of Scripture?

The worst propaganda fundamentalists use is to claim "a high view of Scripture." In a...

January 19, 2023

What’s On The Menu?

Food is a spiritual issue. Mark Mylod's The Menu makes that abundantly clear. It is...

January 17, 2023

Jesus of The Slave-holders

The Jesus of my childhood was the Jesus of slave-holders. No one seemed to know...

January 13, 2023

What Do You Mean By Classical Christian?

I first heard the term "classical Christian" when a fundamentalist explained the philosophy of the...

January 09, 2023

Why Love Is Greater

Love is the greatest of the Theological virtues. 1 Corinthians 13 claim these three virtues...

January 06, 2023

Christian Nationalism Is Not Christian

Two years ago, I started to write my outrage and feelings about white nationalism and...