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June 2014

June 21, 2014

#VAUMC14: Connection — institution vs reality

Part of our annual conference program each year involves a teaching study led by a...

June 21, 2014

The Virginia Conference talks about sexuality

Like many annual conferences of the United Methodist Church, the Virginia Conference is considering a...

June 12, 2014

What does a safe and fruitful church conversation about sexuality look like?

The Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church will be meeting next weekend in Hampton,...

June 11, 2014

Pentecost: God’s rebellion (#sermon #podcast)

This past Sunday, I preached about the way that Pentecost represents God's rebellion against his...

June 09, 2014

The gospel of the freedom to be wrong

God wants us to be family. That is how I understand the purpose of Jesus'...

June 07, 2014

Pentecost: when God rebels against her handlers

Yes, I said her. But on Pentecost you can do that. Jesus calls the one...

June 05, 2014

Should the #UMC ask King Solomon how to cut a baby in half?

Two women stood before King Solomon in 1 Kings 3:16-28 with one baby, both claiming...

June 03, 2014

When “the Bible is perfectly clear” becomes the reason it can’t teach us anything

I've noticed a gap between what feels right to say about the Bible in the...

June 03, 2014

The sea of wrath and the island of mercy (sermon podcast)

For the past several years, I've been working with a metaphor that I originally got...

June 02, 2014

First draft of my 2014 #WildGoose set

I need your help if you're willing to listen to 45 minutes of music while...

June 01, 2014

What if conservatives and progressives need each other?

Nobody gets on my nerves like sanctimonious moderates. You know, the kind who are religiously...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Is there any #UMC accountability for resisting injustice and oppression?

It seems like in United Methodism as with many things, there are unspoken rules about...

May 26, 2014

I could have been Elliot Rodger

I know you're not supposed to read the manifesto of a mass murderer, but that's...

May 25, 2014

Klingon Christians and their gospel coalitions

In a recent post, Peter Enns writes about a certain type of Christian who doesn't...

May 23, 2014

Let them go in peace and start over from scratch like Wesley did

The United Methodist blogosphere has been fired up after a recent announcement that 80 prominent...

May 21, 2014

Culture war blindness: “I can see people but they look like trees walking”

Yesterday morning at our church staff meeting, we read the story of Jesus' double-healing of...

May 20, 2014

Can we stop using “I’ll pray for you” as a retort in social media?

I'll pray for you. How many of you have tweeted or commented that on facebook...

May 19, 2014

Some ambivalent thoughts on Sovereign Grace, the Gospel Coalition, and Twitter

The evangelical twittersphere has been reverberating over the past few days with the hashtag #IStandWithSGMVictims....

May 15, 2014

Jesus, you tell us not to judge but…

If there's one thing that progressive and fundamentalist Christians demonstrate their enthusiastic agreement upon, it's...

May 14, 2014

Why do Islamic fundamentalists sound so much like Christian ones?

Today I stumbled across a blog post written by a Malaysian Muslim named Farouk defending...

May 14, 2014

Buried in baptism, raised in faith (#sermon #podcast)

This past weekend, I preached on the way that Jesus' cross renews us in two...

May 13, 2014

Fly A Little Higher: the story of Zach Sobiech

A little more than a year ago, I discovered the music of Zach Sobiech, a...

May 12, 2014

Reconciled in his fleshly body (#sermon #podcast)

I've gotten a little behind on my sermon podcasts again. This one is from two...

May 10, 2014

In defense of Boy Scout campouts (a reader responds)

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the way that the middle-class church is being...

May 09, 2014

What is a heretic and what is orthodoxy? (A response to Timothy Tennent)

In a recent blog post, Asbury Theological Seminary president Timothy Tennent claimed that the real...

May 07, 2014

“Everything created by God is good” (1 Timothy 4:4)

I stumbled across a beautiful passage in my scripture reading today: 1 Timothy 4:4-5. Paul...

May 06, 2014

Would Jesus pray at a city council meeting?

The more that I think about the recent Supreme Court ruling defending the use of...

May 04, 2014

Rescued from the power of darkness (#sermon #podcast)

At our LifeSign contemporary worship service, our post-Easter sermon series "Resurrected" is a journey through...

May 02, 2014

How do you evangelize fundamentalists?

I don't go out of my way to befriend fundamentalists on facebook, but because of...

May 01, 2014

Stop trolling! Seven ways to be a better internet critic

One of the real poverties of our digital age is the lack of authentic constructive...

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