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August 2015

August 18, 2015

Disrupters, witnesses, and bridge-builders: three different tactics in the struggle for justice

In case you missed it, there's been a huge debate about the Black Lives Matter...

August 10, 2015

Please support Uganda’s Good Samaritan Initiative!!!

Over the past several years, I have become facebook friends with a number of Christian...

July 2015

July 15, 2015

The woman with the orthopedic shoes at my Monday mass

For two and a half years, I spent my Mondays at the Basilica of the...

July 07, 2015

Six scriptures I would use to address Kevin DeYoung’s 40 questions for rainbow flag-waving Christians

Kevin DeYoung’s 40 questions for rainbow-flag waving Christians has been making rounds across the internet...

July 05, 2015

Radical hospitality in a small-town United Methodist church

I must confess I’ve had some stereotypes in my head when it comes to small...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The tragic demise of the word “membership”

This year's Virginia Annual Conference had the theme "From Members to Disciples." It's a common...

June 26, 2015

Are you open to an LGBT-affirming Biblical perspective?

Today the Supreme Court declared that same-sex marriage is the law of the land. I...

June 24, 2015

Four covertly white supremacist concepts we should reconsider

White supremacy. It's not just terrorists in white hoods who burn crosses and lynch black...

June 19, 2015

Why I can’t use euphemisms for anti-gay Christians

I have many anti-gay Christians in my life and I love them at least as...

June 17, 2015

“I just want to do something that matters” (authenticity in an age of clickbait)

On the last day of our United Methodist Louisiana annual conference this year, a young...

June 14, 2015

Every white ally has a little bit of Rachel Dolezal

By now, just about everyone has heard of the white woman Rachel Dolezal who's been...

June 12, 2015

If God is a cop, then every cop is God

Over the past year, as police brutality against people of color has come under increasing...

June 10, 2015

“What if we were free to fail our way forward?”

I'm at the Louisiana annual conference where Dr. Elaine Heath is one of our guest...

June 08, 2015

Church without chatter: a weekend with the monks of St. Joseph Abbey

This past weekend, I found myself home alone without my wife or kids, so I...

June 06, 2015

Worship and justice in the feast of first fruits (Deuteronomy 26)

Yesterday's lectionary reading included a passage from Deuteronomy 26 that gives instructions on what the...

June 04, 2015

Everyone is afraid: thoughts on the panic over identity politics

My Facebook feed has blown up with a Vox article by a "liberal professor" who...

June 03, 2015

What Russell Moore gets right about transgender and intersex identity

Predictably, there have been a lot of ignorant Christian responses to Caitlyn Jenner's coming out....

May 2015

May 22, 2015

Breaking a child’s will: the idolatry of obedience

I read a really chilling blog post on Homeschooler's Anonymous about a disciplinary practice in...

May 19, 2015

Real evangelicals don’t gloat about church decline

I'm not sure who's getting more mileage out of the Pew report on church...

May 16, 2015

Sister Helen Prejean’s chat with the Boston Marathon bomber

This past week, our local New Orleans newspaper ran a story about Sister Helen Prejean's...

May 14, 2015

Jesus’ holiness vs. our moralism (with Debra Hirsch)

I've been reading Debra Hirsch's Redeeming Sex as part of the Patheos Book Club for...

May 13, 2015

What if churches were temples instead of programs?

The latest buzz on the Christian internet is the Pew research report about Christianity's decline in...

May 12, 2015

The self-critique of a social justice warrior

I am a social justice warrior. I mean that in the strictly pejorative sense of...

May 11, 2015

How would Jesus behave on social media?

Christians behave badly on social media. We're rude. We're arrogant. We gossip. We spread rumors....

May 10, 2015

The woman who taught me what grace means

This is my mom with my eldest son a few Christmases ago. She's an excellent...

May 06, 2015

How a core evangelical doctrine became my gateway heresy

The other week, a friend playfully tweeted out a warning not to mess around with...

May 05, 2015

“Wisdom is knowledge gained through suffering” (Elaine Heath)

I've been reading Elaine Heath and Larry Duggins' book Missional. Monastic. Mainline. for a New...

May 04, 2015

Narcissism and platform-building

The Christian blogosphere has been talking a lot about narcissism lately, particularly in the context...

May 01, 2015

Why white Christians need to listen to Amos and Isaiah

"But let justice roll down like waters; and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Amos 5:24...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Why is it only violence when windows get smashed?

There's something about shattered glass. It crosses a line for middle-class white people like me....

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