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May 2014

May 16, 2014

Progressive Christians Often Seem to Not Give Two Shits About the Persecution, Imprisonment and Martyrdom of Fellow Christians and I Think I Know Why: A Retrospective

I was scanning the news a few nights ago and ran across the name...

May 06, 2014

Lives Less Valued: Why Black Girls Matter

The classrooms were filled with learning and dreaming. Students were playing on the playground...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Botched Executions: A Visit, Jesus in Oklahoma and Us

This morning I visited a young man in the Tarrant County Correctional Facility in Fort...

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 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 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 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 06, 2014

The Danger of Calls to The Wilderness: A Lenten Response to Rachel Held Evans and Other Progressive Evangelicals

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is a chief producer and promulgator of spiritual abuse....

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 31, 2014

The End of Gay Marriage

The end is near. The writing is on the wall. The courts are ruling...

March 27, 2014

Would We Execute Moses?: The Case of Anthony Doyle

One day, a man became overcome with evil, grabbed an object and repeatedly struck...

March 26, 2014

Power in the Blood: Oscar Romero, A Failed Atonement Theory and the Inner Seed of Liberty

Growing up our church was a rather stoic place. On Sundays we sang stoic songs. ...

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 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 05, 2014

The Push of the Ashes: A Manifesto of Defiance for Clergy Colleagues

The words of ash and dust on this day are intended to usher us...

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...

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

Coconspirators in Uganda’s Recent Homophobic Bill: Mainline Christians

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

February 23, 2014

The Start: A Faithful Pilgrimage to Abolish the Death Penalty

This morning we are gathered here in Dallas as a faith community to express...

February 20, 2014

Letter to Dallas Co DA Craig Watkins from the TCADP Faith Community

February 21, 2014 Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, Good morning. We bring...

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 15, 2014

Turning Shitheads into Prayer Partners

I woke up one morning last week and this message was posted on the...

February 15, 2014

We Can End This: Remarks to the Fort Worth Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Prayer Breakfast

I believe in God...but most of all I believe in love. If we believe...

February 15, 2014

The Journey to Abolition: Remarks to the Dallas Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Prayer Breakfast

"Jesus hung on a cross for a long time and had plenty of time...

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...