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March 2022

March 21, 2022

Lent Never Stopped

Lent never stopped because no one was raised from the dead and we didn’t make...

March 07, 2022

Intuition and the Garden of Eden

I’ve spent much of the pandemic contemplating the meaning of the biblical Garden of Eden...

January 2022

January 25, 2022

The Continuous Gaslighting Of An Autistic Mind

I'm needing to get out some feelings and thoughts about my experience as an autistic....

January 11, 2022

Why I Still Call Myself A Christian

I continue to call myself a Christian for two reasons: 1) because my mother is...

January 06, 2022

The Fools: A Group Proposal

We could be called The Fools, because we speak with the freedom of those who...

December 2021

December 06, 2021

Why Does The Knowledge of Good And Evil Make Humanity Fall?

Very few interpreters of the Garden of Eden story in Genesis 3 pay any attention...

December 05, 2021

On Getting Banned From A White Queer Christian Discord For Attacking Augustine

Well I just got banned from a white queer Christian discord space for attacking Augustine's...

December 03, 2021

On Being A Christian Pagan Mystic

When I was in my early twenties, I called myself a Christian pagan, a memory...

September 2021

September 08, 2021

Why I Am Probably Leaving United Methodism

[Update: Read the first comment. I think it gets at the heart of what I've...

April 2021

April 15, 2021

My Messiah

My messiah is exactly the kind of man you’d expect without a human Y chromosome:...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Donald Trump And The Exorcism Of White America

Trump and his supporters believe that he is a scapegoat. In their understanding of what...

September 23, 2020

When God’s A Cop, Every Cop Is God

Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY, sent...

August 2020

August 10, 2020

The Clown (A Poem About God)

God, are you such a clown That you’re also the snake We have always feared...

August 03, 2020

Impulse + Contact (A Poem About Divine Encounter)

This is a spoken word poem I made that was inspired by mystical encounters with...

July 2020

July 16, 2020

My Best Teachers Are People I Cannot Win

I want to win everyone. I suppose it's a fairly common problem among pastors. But...

July 13, 2020

Celebrity-Driven Church Is Not Safe For Kids

I keep on thinking that I’m “over” what happened to me. At a shamanic retreat...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

“All People Are Holy”: The Theology Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez summarized one of my core religious convictions in a speech given on February...

June 28, 2020

Epimenides And The Plague Of Athens

[This is a guest-post from my father John Guyton who's interested in the parallel between...

June 24, 2020

#AllLivesMatter: A Theology Of Generic Humanity

Why do white evangelicals like our vice president Mike Pence continue to feel the need...

June 18, 2020

Why Kevin DeYoung’s “Culture War Strategy” Fails

The Gospel Coalition published an article by Kevin DeYoung decrying the Supreme Court decision that...

June 08, 2020

Do We Need Cops?

I need to confess something that will make me look unwoke. I was a bit...

June 07, 2020

On Learning How To Be Compost

Friday night, I was antsy because I hadn't yet been to a protest of the...

June 06, 2020

Thugs (A Poem About Men In Uniform Who Shove The Elderly)

They’re doing what They’re supposed to do; The Bible even says that The role of...

June 05, 2020

I Want You To Get It

I don’t want you To be canceled; I want you to get it. And nobody...

June 05, 2020

The Serpent’s Fruit (In Poetic Form)

He understood clearly That all he had to do Was hold the Bible Courageously for...

June 04, 2020

The Fruit The Serpent Holds

I was proud of our former president George W. Bush this week. He said the...

June 03, 2020

Why True Christianity Is Anarchist

I wanted to take a few moments to talk about anarchism since Donald Trump has...

June 02, 2020

The Last Battle (A Poem About Narnia)

We were trapped in A stable that was Burning and it Seemed like the Entire...

June 02, 2020

All Poetry Is God-Breathed

All poetry is God-breathed And useful for divine teaching Not because the words are Right...

June 01, 2020

Dehumanization Is The Real Enemy

We are living in demonic times. Whatever you believe about Satan, I use the word...

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