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April 2014

April 27, 2014

Donald Sterling, Churches and Race

I grew up on the Southside of Atlanta. Our county transitioned from a...

April 25, 2014

A Child of God and Boldly Addressing the Violent Hate that Killed Her

Maren Sanchez was stabbed to death today a few days after turning down a...

April 25, 2014

Bent: Why I Decided to Act.

There is danger in forgetting. There is also danger in remembering incorrectly. The tragic...

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 18, 2014

Jesus Didn’t Die for Your Sins. Jesus Died to Show You the Way…the Way to the Cross. // Some Words from A Good Friday Walk

Lately, I have had a lot of time to think about borders and boundaries. ...

April 16, 2014

The Passion of Jesus Comes Early: Standing on the Via Dolorsa at the Execution of Jose Luis Villegas Jr.

When Jesus declares I was in prison and you did not visit me…and goes on...

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,...

April 11, 2014

Finding Inspiration on Immigration in Strange Places // When Jeb Bush Sounded Like Jesus

I believe that there are rare moments when a person speaks to a political...

April 09, 2014

Hand Washing: The Case of Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas

When injustices take place, there are always hand washers. To absolve his self of...

April 09, 2014

Actions Talk and Bullshit Walks: The Story of A Real Christian: Major Kathy Cox of the Salvation Army: Witness to 60+ Executions in Texas

I was scared the first time I visited Texas' Death Row. I knew no one...

April 02, 2014

The Danger of Being Called Pastor / Thoughts the Night Before Death Row

The sky has been dark all afternoon. Lately, it seems the sky is always...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

A Devotional from a Book that has Some Occasional Shit In It

"But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as...

March 23, 2014

Why We Can’t Wait: A Sunday Letter from a Baptist Pastor to my Methodist Colleagues

There in the darkness a courageous Baptist Pastor sat furiously transcribing a letter. The words...

March 20, 2014

Jesus Enraged: Overturning Purveyors of Injustice

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

March 16, 2014

Prayers for a Child of God

Fred Phelps Sr. founded the infamous Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas....

March 14, 2014

poetics under fire or verse written with my son sitting on me on a flight to dallas-fort worth

bart bart screamed out and everyone told him not to shout the one they...

March 11, 2014

A Love Letter to Mark Driscoll

*Mark Driscoll is the Founding Pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington. ...

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 07, 2014

The Danger of Missions in a World Desperate for Salvation

The religious world of my youth was filled with stories of so-called courageous missionaries who...

March 04, 2014

apoem: the why of ashe wednesday

ashes to ashes dust to dust the beginning of when ashes to ashes dust...

March 03, 2014

A Sermon Entitled “Jesus for President” or The Reason I Will Never Endorse a Political Candidate

The church of my youth had a bad habit of mixing political candidates with...

March 02, 2014

The Guys with the Guns on the Denton Square

The ice pellets hit my head as I negotiated the icy sidewalk. I heard...

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 28, 2014

The Week: Close to Death

Over the past few weeks, my mind has never been far from death. Last...

February 26, 2014

Delivered Tonight: A Question for Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins

"My question is for District Attorney Watkins. My name is Jeff Hood. I am a...

February 26, 2014

The Judgment: Christians and the Ruling in Texas

This afternoon U.S. Federal Judge Orlando Garcia ruled that Texas' prohibition of gay marriage is...

February 25, 2014

Love Dangerously Dallas

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

February 24, 2014

Coconspirators in Uganda’s Recent Homophobic Bill: Mainline Christians

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a bill today that gives a penalty of life...

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...