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August 2021

August 13, 2021

How Much Has Changed

Political activism, a renunciation of pacifism, and realizing my own queerness. Here's my attempt to...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

How Trump and an Unlikely Parable Changed My Mind about Voting

Despite my opposition to Donald Trump, I chose not to vote in the 2016 United...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Top 10 Books That Most Impacted My Spiritual Journey

Every book I read influences me in one way or another. But a handful of...

August 16, 2017

What I’ve Learned from Dead Guys (Podcast Interview)

Ryan Cagle and I chat about C.S. Lewis, St. Athanasius, George MacDonald, and my journey...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

The God Jesus Reveals (The Beautiful Gospel of WHEAT)

Jesus is the Word of God. Any picture of God that runs counter to the...

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...

April 2017

April 21, 2017

I’m Giving Away a Stack of 7 Books! (R. Foster, B. MacHaffie, B. McLaren, R. Sider, J. Yoder, et al.)

I have a problem. I like used-book and thrift stores too much. I can’t help...

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...

January 2017

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 23, 2016

Help Mark Van Steenwyk Buy Back The unKingdom of God

A little over a year ago, I had the pleasure to review Mark Van Steenwyk’s...

July 2016

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...

April 2016

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...

January 2016

January 04, 2016

How One Church Reacted to the Threat of Violence—and the Questions It Forces Us to Ask

Pastor Larry Wright was leading a New Year’s Eve prayer service in a downtown Fayetteville...

December 2015

December 01, 2015

What Defines a Heretic? Am I One?

Biblical definition Biblically speaking, the word heretic comes from the Greek hairetikon, meaning “divisive” (Titus...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Introducing My New Blog: Hippie Heretic

Why choose the name Hippie Heretic? In a sense, others chose the name for me....