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December 2014

December 10, 2014

A rap about a teenage mom named Mary and her illegitimate son Jesus

Last year I wrote a rap for Advent about the circumstances of Jesus' birth and...

December 08, 2014

Did God or Satan tell David to take a census? Progressive revelation & Derek Flood’s Disarming Scripture

If God tells you to sin, is it still a sin? What if God tells...

December 06, 2014

Media sensationalism and rape culture at my alma mater UVA (TW: rape culture)

It's been a hard couple of weeks to be a Wahoo in the wake of...

December 05, 2014

How Jesus saves through Michael Brown and Eric Garner

One thing that I never tire of pondering as a Christian is how Jesus' cross...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

A Thanksgiving IHOP run and my complicity in the failure of capitalism

I don't go shopping on Black Friday, not because I'm a virtuous person, but because...

November 22, 2014

Transphobia’s newest target: Winnie the Pooh

The transphobic Polish town council of Tuszyn has banished Winnie the Pooh from being a...

November 20, 2014

If you need for undocumented immigrants to be punished, then you don’t believe in Jesus’ cross

We have a broken immigration system. And it's broken in a way that is incredibly...

November 19, 2014

Two offensive analogies in the gay marriage debate from David Gushee and Andrew Wilson

During the past couple of weeks, two arguments have surfaced on opposite sides of the...

November 17, 2014

The Jesuit martyrs, the pueblo crucificado, and the kingdom of God

25 years ago, on November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter...

November 11, 2014

Help us build stoves with the Highland Support Project!!!

The short term mission trip industrial complex is now a multi-billion dollar industry. Unfortunately, many...

November 07, 2014

Can God improvise outside the boundaries of Christian orthodoxy?

Generally there are two extreme positions that Christians can take when talking about where other...

November 06, 2014

Love is not our choice, but God’s gift (featuring Simone Weil)

One of the most problematic axioms in the popular evangelical culture that raised me is...

November 05, 2014

Should we accept ourselves or despise ourselves? [reflections on Henri Nouwen and Thomas a Kempis]

I've been reading two books simultaneously from two guys who have been deeply influential on...

November 04, 2014

When I need a weak Jesus to be my friend (an encounter with an icon)

Yesterday was a very rich day of healing for me. So many of my readers...

November 02, 2014

Hello darkness, my old friend

There's a certain line that gets crossed between the normal daily inadequacies I experience and...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Is Ross Douthat right that offering communion to divorcees will bring down the Catholic church?

I had always thought of Ross Douthat as one of the "reasonable conservatives" whom I...

October 29, 2014

Wisdom from Thomas a Kempis #1: esoteric words vs. virtuous life

Thomas a Kempis was a 15th century German monk who wrote The Imitation of Christ,...

October 23, 2014

Why I like Pope Francis’ “God of surprises”

It's little secret that progressive evangelicals like me have a huge crush on Pope Francis...

October 21, 2014

Where I’m actually coming from as a progressive evangelical

One of my most valuable conversation partners on the Internet is a conservative Calvinist campus...

October 16, 2014

When cis-het men play God: evangelical transphobia and the idolatry of gender

Last week, Russell Moore wrote a column for The Gospel Coalition called "Joan or John?"...

October 13, 2014

Is God arbitrary? (my point of contention with conservative evangelicals)

Is there anything that God asks us to do for no other reason than because...

October 11, 2014

How mental illness made me a pastor

Today my son Matthew and I participated in a walk with the National Alliance on...

October 02, 2014

When Martin Luther King, Jr. Clashed With White Moderate Methodists

When Martin Luther King, Jr. and his entourage descended on Birmingham, Alabama in early 1963,...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

“Against you alone have I sinned” (the solipsism of evangelical morality)

"Against you alone have I sinned." These words from Psalm 51:4 are attributed to the...

September 23, 2014

Cock-blocking and rape culture

It's one of those phrases you know not to use in mixed company. But there's...

September 19, 2014

Three arguments for Biblical inerrancy that need to be retired

One of the most important books I read in seminary was evangelical Old Testament scholar...

September 17, 2014

Do you deserve to be crucified for your sin?

This past week, Brian Zahnd and Michael Brown held a debate on the penal substitution...

September 12, 2014

Ben Corey’s Undiluted: An Accessible Escape-Hatch for Disaffected Fundamentalists

A book title about Jesus called Undiluted can make you roll your eyes at first if...

September 10, 2014

Could ISIS become the Westboro Baptist of jihadism?

Yes, I know, it's a woefully contrived analogy. Hateful Christians with "God hates fags" signs...

September 09, 2014

Does Janay Rice’s voice matter?

In my first job out of college, I was the program coordinator of the Nicaragua...

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