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January 2020

January 04, 2020

Ten Spiritual Lessons From A Decade of Failures

I first became a licensed local pastor in July 2010. Over the course of the...

December 2019

December 13, 2019

Is David French or Mayor Pete Right About Christian Salvation?

My buddy Jason Micheli recently wrote about the gap between the Christianities of conservative evangelical...

December 05, 2019

The Conservative Insight I Cannot Reject

We live in an age in which actual conservative principles have been buried by tribal...

November 2019

November 13, 2019

Why Isn’t Perfection In Love Good Enough For Wesleyan Theology?

As United Methodism approaches our denominational apocalypse at the May 2020 General Conference, I've come...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

“Let It Fall”

My therapist told me something last week that blew my mind. The Hebrew word rafa...

October 09, 2019

How I Would Rewrite Desiring God’s “Joy” Tweet

A recent drama in Christian Twitter (several news cycles ago) involved the circulation of a...

September 2019

September 17, 2019

The Bursting Of The Methodist Wineskin

One of the most uncomfortable and least talked about parables of Jesus is his parable...

August 2019

August 20, 2019

Methodism Needs A No Fault Divorce

I'm not the best person at parsing through details. Right now I'm in the thick...

August 14, 2019

Eight Fragmented Thoughts On #ResurrectionGate

For those of you who weren't following progressive Christian twitter a few days ago, there...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

Can “Social Justice” Christianity Be Anti-Gay?

This past Friday, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that inaugurated the gay...

June 26, 2019

The Time Jesus Crashed An Economy To Heal An Outcast

The gospel reading for this past Sunday was the story of the Gerasene demoniac in...

June 22, 2019

“Sugary Preaching Leads to Truth Decay”

Our Virginia annual conference happened in Roanoke this year. As I drove from my parents'...

June 12, 2019

Sexual Abuse and Religious Authority in the SBC: One Survivor’s View

I've shared before that I'm a survivor of childhood sexual trauma in a Southern Baptist...

May 2019

May 21, 2019

Why I Stan For Bran the Disabled King in #GameOfThrones

This is probably one of those awkward dad moments when I misuse a term like...

May 08, 2019

Democratized Theology vs. Theology of the Demos (Mob)

I should have known that I was going to get snarky replies from conservative evangelicals...

May 07, 2019

Patriarchy, the Reluctant Ruler, and the Mad Queen (GOT Spoilers!)

I'm very new to the Game of Thrones world. Since some of my students are...

May 04, 2019

Rachel Held Evans and the Democratization of Theology

I was motivated to start this blog after I discovered Rachel Held Evans in 2011...

April 2019

April 21, 2019

Privilege and Resurrection: A Response to Serene Jones

On this Holy Saturday, the New York Times published an interview with Serene Jones, the...

April 19, 2019

Five Things to Get Right About Jesus’ Cross

I decided to get back on the blog for Good Friday since I've been thinking...

March 2019

March 05, 2019

Testimony from a Queer African Christian

[The following is a testimony from Turinawe Samson, the founder of Universal Love Alliance, the...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

Support the African Movement for Inclusion!!!

Today is a hard day. I have been trying to figure out how to channel...

February 26, 2019

Practical Holiness Is Wesleyan Orthodoxy

I just spent a three-day Cursillo retreat with mostly older, conservative small-town United Methodists in...

February 19, 2019

Honest Questions For Traditionalist Methodists On The Eve of Our Apocalypse

As United Methodists enter the final week before our called General Conference on queer sexuality,...

February 05, 2019

Two Visions And A Council For Our Discernment

"Saul, why do you persecute me?" "What God has made clean, you must not call...

February 02, 2019

Nein! A Response to Jason Micheli On Sanctification and Sex

Jason Micheli is my closest frenemy who isn't openly Calvinist. I love Jason, but sometimes...

February 02, 2019

Nein! A Response to Jason Micheli on Holiness and Christian Sexuality

Jason Micheli is my closest frenemy who isn't openly Calvinist. I love Jason, but sometimes...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

The Evangelism of a Thousand Clergy Trials

I denied Christ, just like Simon Peter when the cock crowed. It was a couple...

January 25, 2019

Can Abortion Be Morally Complex?

The pro-life movement is all over social media up in arms over the new New...

January 22, 2019

Our Sin Is Not A Zero Sum Game

I sinned. I reacted impulsively and opportunistically to the Covington Catholic drama with my hot...

January 20, 2019

“Unfortunate and Regrettable”

The boys of Covington Catholic High School stole the show at this weekend's March for...

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