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August 2026

August 29, 2026

Get Behind Me, Satan: A Death Row Spiritual Advisor’s Sermon

The Passages: Get Behind Me, Satan From that point on, Jesus started making it clear...

May 2026

May 09, 2026

Orphans : The Spirit Will Never Leave Us

A reflection on John 14:15-21 The Fear of Being Orphaned There is a particular kind...

March 2026

March 11, 2026

A Strange Witness: Cedric Ricks Said He Wanted to Die.

A Strange Witness I have been inside enough courtrooms to know that they lie to...

November 2025

November 08, 2025

A Love That Rages: Jesus Destroys the Temple

Jesus Destroys the Temple A Love That Rages: John 2:13–22 As Passover approached, Jesus went...

October 2025

October 13, 2025

Samuel Smithers: The Age of Mercy

The Age of Samuel Smithers The Day Approaches On October 14, 2025, Samuel Lee Smithers,...

October 13, 2025

Samuel Lee Smithers: The Deacon of Death

The Deacon of Death There are crimes so brutal and intimate in their cruelty, that...

October 01, 2025

Charles Crawford Deserves Life: Tate Reeves Hungers to Kill

Life for Charles Crawford On October 15, Mississippi plans to kill Charles Crawford. The state...

September 2025

September 29, 2025

Ritualized Indifference: The Execution of Victor Tony Jones

Ritualized Indifference & The Illusion of Justice in Florida’s Death Chamber In just a few...

September 19, 2025

Richard Djerf and the Crucifixion of Christ in Arizona

On October 17, 2025, the state of Arizona will strap Richard Kenneth Djerf to a...

September 13, 2025

Lactantius Against the Death Penalty: Early Christian Ethics

Lactantius and the Death Penalty: A Radical Moral Witness from the Early Church It’s hard...

May 2025

May 11, 2025

Don’t Kill a Pastor: Save Greg Hunt

The Murder In the early morning hours of August 2, 1988, Karen Lane was...

December 2023

December 21, 2023

Parable of the Weeds on Death Row: Jeff Hood & Bart Johnson

Parable of the Weeds on Death Row: Jeff Hood & Bart Johnson The...

December 17, 2023

Losing Consciousness: Hidden Dangers of Nitrogen Hypoxia

Nitrogen. I keep hearing the word repeatedly. In fact, the word presently consumes a...

September 2023

September 20, 2023

“The Fight for Anthony Sanchez”: Last Minute Reflections on the Death of God and an Innocent Man

“The Fight for Anthony Sanchez”: Last Minute Reflections on the Death of God and...

September 17, 2023

Angry Doves: The Fight for Anthony Sanchez (On The Coming Days)

I arose this morning (like I do on most mornings), pondering the troubling existential...

April 2022

April 26, 2022

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April 04, 2022

The Genocide of Silence. / An Existential Poem.

The Genocide of Silence. Silence is horrifying. Why? Fear. Of. What we will...

January 2022

January 25, 2022

Rev. Dwight Lee Wolter: The Church’s New Rambo

In response to an opinion piece by Rev. Dwight Lee Wolter found at Rev....

January 09, 2022

The Police Just Literally Burned a Man to Death

The Police Just Burned a Man to Death For nearly a decade,...

December 2021

December 24, 2021

The Hood Creed: A Queer Creed from A Queer Believer at Christmas

The Hood Creed: Queer Thoughts from a Queer Believer Often, folks who disagree with...

December 22, 2021

The Helsinki Interfaith Peacemaking Initiative

Fellow inhabitants of earth, For almost two years now, I have served as...

December 18, 2021

The Embodiment of Christmas: Broader Lessons from the Text

The Embodiment of Christmas: Broader Lessons from the Text Putting on my suspenders...

November 2019

November 01, 2019

On the Innocence of Brandon Gonzales.

There were days of planning. Repeatedly, he went by The Party Venue to rehearse...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

The Money: A Parable of Sorts (Part 5 of 8): The Violence

"Fuck this shit." Zack was beyond angry. "Another nigger coworker?!?" Heading to the door...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Southern Baptist Pastor Affirms Polyamory!

*Interview I did with Chuck McKnight/Hippie Heretic...which originally appeared at Chuck...

September 23, 2017

The Color of Brutality: Theology From Huntington Beach

"Get down!" Those were the last words that a transient man heard outside...

April 2017

April 09, 2017

Beware of the Palm Wavers

*I posted a version of this on Palm Sunday 2016 The people of...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

#51 / Jonestown Theology: Lenten Explorations in the Valley of Death

God is never lost. In the midst of great evil, God is there. I have...

March 23, 2017

#30 / Jonestown Theology: Lenten Explorations in the Valley of Death

God is never lost. In the midst of great evil, God is there. I have...

February 2017

February 05, 2017

Jesus and Football / On the Super Bowl

Middle school is a time of dumb decisions and lively discovery. I soaked it...