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June 2017

June 22, 2017

The Importance of Loving Yourself First

Jesus first. Others second. Yourself last. Right? Or do we have that backward? What if...

June 15, 2017

Can You Love LGBTQ People while Condemning Their Relationships?

Which side of history will we land on? How will our actions appear in retrospect?...

June 06, 2017

Transformative Love (The Beautiful Gospel of WHEAT)

Salvation—theosis—is the process of being transformed by God’s love into his image. We can’t “lose”...

May 2017

May 21, 2017

Human Solidarity (The Beautiful Gospel of WHEAT)

Jesus accomplished our salvation by uniting his divine nature with our human nature, and he...

May 11, 2017

A Clarification on DAISY, Plus a Few Other Acronyms

I’ve had multiple Arminians explain that they don’t approve of the DAISY acronym. Here are...

May 09, 2017

The Beautiful Gospel of WHEAT (Not TULIP, DAISY, or ROSES)

It’s time for a new acronym—a counter-narrative to the Calvinistic gospel of TULIP, as well...

April 2017

April 14, 2017

What Did Jesus’ Death Accomplish? (Here’s the Best Explanation I’ve Heard)

It’s Good Friday, and the church is contemplating the death of Christ. Why did he...

April 11, 2017

We All Form One Body (RTT)

For week two of Random Text Tuesday (RTT), my random-text selector gave me Romans 12:5....

April 06, 2017

On “Picking and Choosing” Beliefs with Humility

I had an interesting conversation in the comments of another post, and I thought it...

April 01, 2017

Ken Ham’s Ark Park Plans to Re-create Plagues of Egypt

As some of you know, I used to work for Answers in Genesis back in...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Why I Left, Why I Stayed by Tony Campolo & Bart Campolo (Book Review)

Tony Campolo is one of the most gracious and well-spoken voices that I know of...

March 12, 2017

Why Evolution May Be More Important to the Church Than I Once Believed

My background is steeped in Young Earth Creationism (YEC). I heard it taught as gospel...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

An Open Letter to Jesus: Find Common Ground

Dear Jesus, Let me start by saying how much I appreciate the majority of what...

January 23, 2017

12 Famous Quotes These Christian Leaders Never Said

I frequently see these quotes make the rounds on social media. They’re mostly great sentiments,...

January 09, 2017

The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr & Mike Morrell (Book Review)

This is a book about the Trinity, but it’s not your average exposition of the...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

A Day of Thanksgiving?

Today is called “Thanksgiving.” And there’s no doubt that I—well situated in my life of...

November 04, 2016

Does This Make Me a Bad Anabaptist?

I have a confession to make. I don’t care very much about baptism. Does this...

October 2016

October 23, 2016

This Nameless Movement of God

I posted the following thoughts on my Facebook wall yesterday. The reaction to my post...

July 2016

July 05, 2016

A Gay-Affirming Christian, Part 4: Confronting the Clobber Passages

This is the fourth and final post in a series arguing for the legitimacy of...

July 03, 2016

What Did Jesus Think of the Revolution?

More than two centuries ago, the founding fathers of the United States signed a document...

July 01, 2016

A Gay-Affirming Christian, Part 3: It All Comes Down to Love

This is the third post in a series arguing for the legitimacy of LGBTQ relationships...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

A Gay-Affirming Christian, Part 2: The Biblical Case for Marriage

This is the second post in a series arguing for the legitimacy of LGBTQ relationships...

June 27, 2016

A Gay-Affirming Christian, Part 1: Entering the Conversation

My wife and I recently celebrated our fourth anniversary. These past four and a half...

June 12, 2016

It’s Time to Speak Out as a Gay-Affirming Christian

For several years now, I’ve been straddling the fence in response to you, my LGBTQ...

April 2016

April 12, 2016

No, Denying Inerrancy Does Not Make One a Marcionite

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve witnessed an inerrantist accuse someone of...

April 02, 2016

My Long Fight to Defend Inerrancy & Why I Finally Accepted the Bible We Have

I was raised as a missionary kid in a fundamentalist family. My dad, a pastor...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

Trouble I’ve Seen by Drew Hart (Book Review)

Drew Hart’s Trouble I’ve Seen is forcing me to do some hard thinking, and that’s...

February 2016

February 21, 2016

The Jihad of Jesus by Dave Andrews (Book Review)

What comes to mind when you see the word jihad? A so-called holy war? The...

February 06, 2016

Water to Wine by Brian Zahnd (Book Review)

My introduction to Brian Zahnd was his book A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor’s...

February 05, 2016

25 Views on Hell? 2 Questions to Reframe the Debate

The Christian church has always agreed that there will be a final judgment of the...