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September 2014

September 06, 2014

How Andrew W.K. messed with my prayer life

The Village Voice in New York City has a weekly advice column by a guy...

September 02, 2014

How I would say what Victoria Osteen said differently

In a video clip that has been making the rounds on social media, prosperity gospel...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Grace vs. niceness in interracial dialogue

I wanted to ponder the difference between grace and niceness in difficult online conversations, particularly...

August 25, 2014

Teach us to want: the quest to transcend evangelical moralism

"I was beginning to confidently believe that the only way of discerning what God wanted...

August 20, 2014

Could you listen to an angry black Jesus?

I know. He doesn't look all that angry. There just aren't any good angry black...

August 17, 2014

Why I refuse to shame people for social media silence

A few days ago, a friend of mine expressed disappointment that a preacher many of...

August 14, 2014

Our gated communities and the black bogeyman that haunts us

I decided to take a picture of the most violent thing I've seen so far...

August 12, 2014

A brilliant thing Kierkegaard wrote about love

I discovered the Danish Christian existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard my first year in college. He...

August 10, 2014

Is it okay to notice that Jesus can be a jerk sometimes?

The lectionary reading for this week is the familiar story of Jesus walking across the...

August 08, 2014

What if instead of attacking gay people, evangelicals supported celibate monasticism?

The latest thing conservative evangelicals on social media are getting excited about and sharing around...

August 07, 2014

Ridicule is great clickbait, but is it good for Christian community?

If there's one thing that defines our era, it's the way that people like to...

August 05, 2014

Daddy, is the devil real?

My sons wanted to tell spooky stories last night. Isaiah went first, then Matthew, then...

August 01, 2014

A song that shows how war can destroy your humanity

This video was recorded in Tel Aviv by Ha'aertz journalist Haim Har-Zahav. The lyrics of...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Who are the weeds in God’s garden? (Matthew 13)

This picture is a renegade chamomile plant that came up through a crack in our...

July 22, 2014

The only two sides of any human conflict for Christians who love their enemies

We live in a world that loves to draw lines between "us" and "them." This...

July 20, 2014

An enemy is someone whose story you haven’t heard

A couple of weeks ago, Brian Zahnd preached a sermon on the healing of Naaman...

July 18, 2014

When children get in the way of our boundaries in Gaza and California

Children get in the way. It's what they do. My children get in my way...

July 15, 2014

“Try me, O Lord, and test me” (a prayer for integrity, Psalm 26:2-3)

Today's Daily Office reading included two verses from a psalm that comprise an awesome prayer...

July 13, 2014

How does God “condemn sin in the flesh” on Jesus’ cross? (Romans 8:3)

In this week's lectionary epistle reading, Paul writes that "by sending his own Son in...

July 13, 2014

Exit-trolling: the new tactic in Facebook psychological warfare

I remember a few years ago when Facebook was young, people used to play a...

July 10, 2014

#jadapose: when rape culture and misogyny can’t be blamed on those conservatives

There's a new meme on twitter called #jadapose. A girl named Jada was at a...

July 09, 2014

The failure of Christian witness in a world of violence

A West Virginia woman named Holly Fisher stirred up a social media storm with her...

July 07, 2014

God’s triune sovereignty as provider, victim, and rebel

I've been dragging my heels on writing this post because referring to God as a...

July 05, 2014

#WildGoose14: where the Trinity was a dance party without inhibition

I've been meditating on two things that my brother Jonathan Martin said during our rave...

June 2014

June 29, 2014

Challenge: a week without mocking

One of the most toxic things that happens in our social media world is the...

June 26, 2014

Can Christianity work with a Mr. Rogers God? (Wrestling with “moralistic therapeutic deism”)

There's a wonky term that gets thrown around a lot among Christian educators called "moralistic...

June 25, 2014

Spiritual tinkering: good or bad?

We've been having a stimulating conversation at the campus ministry summer institute at Candler School...

June 24, 2014

When you troll me, you get unfriended

One of the things that grieves me about the social media era is the way...

June 23, 2014

The two women who got me to carry the rainbow flag

Despite the fact that I've been pretty vocal on my blog about LGBT issues, I...

June 22, 2014

#VAUMC14: We voted for real conversation about sexuality; that means the onus is on us to have it!

Yesterday, my colleague Tom Berlin put forward a motion to postpone the resolution that had...

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