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January 2015

January 31, 2015

The Courage to Be Queer

*Delivered on January 25, 2015 at the Virginia-Highland Church in Atlanta, Georgia Life...

September 2014

September 20, 2014

I AM the Light of the World: Connecting Queerly with the Gospel of John at Living Faith Covenant Church

Queer Theology goes beyond identity. Queer Theology seeks to affirm people for who God...

September 18, 2014

LOVE: Wrestling with the Wrestlings of Paul and the Root of Our Self

*Delivered at Cathedral of Hope United Church of Christ in Dallas, Texas on 9/18/2014 We...

September 07, 2014

“Becoming Queer and Growing Queerer”

*Delivered at Greater Dallas Metropolitan Community Church When we think about God...we often go...

June 2014

June 08, 2014

“Embracing the Power of the Queer” – A Sermon Delivered at the Cathedral of Hope / June 4, 2014

adapted transcription below full video at What a powerful thing to be standing...

April 2014

April 22, 2014

Jesus Sells Drugs: An Easter Message

I have known many Easters. I remember one Easter morning as a child realizing Jesus...

April 14, 2014

Our Enemies Cometh and in them Lay Our Salvation

I have my fair share of enemies these days. I have found that the...

April 14, 2014

Pushing into the Darkness to Be the Light

The children walk down the aisles of our churches waving palms all around. Together,...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

Jesus Enraged: Overturning Purveyors of Injustice

For many of us, our lives are filled with the mundane and monotonous. ...

March 10, 2014

A Girl Named Peter and the Path to God

Welcome to Lent. This is not a time of celebration for the fuzz that...

March 02, 2014

My First Job in Ministry, Forgiveness & the Imperfect Pursuit of Perfection

Forgiveness is not something I am good at...but I know it is something that...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Love Dangerously Dallas

Everybody wants to talk about love these days...but no one wants to talk about...

February 24, 2014

Get in the Way / Bring them Close / Tell the Stories that Obstruct

In Matthew 25, Jesus talks about some sheep and goats...but this is more than...

February 17, 2014

Leading With A Withered Hand

Rarely do I preach a similar sermon in the same day...but today is an exception. ...

February 16, 2014

The Withered Hand, The Undivided Heart and The Undistracted Church

There was a man with a withered hand. Jesus approached the man with the...

February 12, 2014

The Wise Men Deconstructed or The Lack of Wisdom in the Wise Men

Have far would you travel to meet God? The idea of incarnation is that...

February 12, 2014

The Paralytic Church, Queerphobia & Frank Schaefer

Do any of you believe in healing? Do you believe that Jesus actually healed...

February 03, 2014

the ice pellets on the head of God: reimagining church

The weather is difficult this evening. We slipped and slid a bit on our...

February 03, 2014

being and healing: responding to the call

John the Baptist called out from the wilderness to make a way for Jesus. ...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

The Terminal

Not all that long ago, I spoke on the phone with a friend...

January 27, 2014

The Year of Living Dangerously: …on the Bible

Since the various early councils to construct a cannon or scripture, the Bible has...

January 21, 2014

Gone to Mixing

Yesterday, I marched with the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty in the...

January 20, 2014

The Year of Living Dangerously: Loving Your Enemy or Jumping in the Gelatin Dessert

The nation will stop to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther...

January 14, 2014

Stay Awake with Me

It is a beautiful thing to be gathered here with you this evening around...

January 13, 2014

I am, Ground of Being and the Courage to Be : A Dangerous Proposition

The dying can really teach the living the power of being. Then again, I...

January 08, 2014

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, Jesus & the Space Between

In our first gathering as a church, we spent time wrestling with what it...

January 07, 2014

The Year of Living Dangerously : The Dangerous God

Welcome to the year of living dangerously! On this day I begin with a...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

Beyond The Language of G-O-D

This morning we celebrate and remember the visit of the wise men or...

December 25, 2013

Embrace the Incarnation: A Christmas Message

On the way to church tonight, I drove past many churches large and small...

December 22, 2013

The Way and Bethlehem

Over two thousand years ago in a stable filled with shit, Mary cried out...