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January 2019

January 11, 2019

Make Us Your Flesh (A Poem About God)

Make us your flesh; let your love drip down like oil that is messy &...

January 09, 2019

Why Does Holiness Matter?

Holiness is one of the most important and controversial aspects of John Wesley's 300 year...

January 08, 2019

Theology That Builds Walls

Donald Trump would not be fixated on building a wall on the southern border of...

January 02, 2019

Jerry Falwell Jr. Unveils the Anti-Christ

No, I'm not going to say Donald Trump is the anti-Christ. Because I don't believe...

December 2018

December 30, 2018

Can A Church Be A Cafe, Dance Party, and Music Venue?

We took a risk when NOLA Wesley started the Labyrinth cafe. Meaning we did something...

December 28, 2018

The Evangelical Zeal For Zeal

Fred Hartley's Dare to Be Different was one of the books that defined my evangelical...

December 24, 2018

Jesus is God’s Rebellion Against Humanity

Jesus is God's rebellion against humanity. That statement is as offensive as the real Christmas...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

Can ICE and Immigrants Worship Together?

Yesterday my friend and mentor Brian Zahnd got a lot of flak for tweeting about...

November 20, 2018

A Love Letter to Ex-Evangelical Twitter

I debated whether to call this a love letter or an open letter. Love letter...

November 09, 2018

Amicable Separation Or Political Leverage?

Last weekend was the first-ever global legislative assembly for the Wesleyan Covenant Association, the United...

November 02, 2018

I Am Cain (a poem)

I am Cain; And my altar doesn’t burn. Oh it burns some As long as...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Can Wesleyanism Evolve Or Does It Belong To The 18th Century?

The continuous meta-debate within the United Methodist debate is to ask: what are we really...

October 29, 2018

Anti-Semitism Is Not Satire, Babylon Bee

If anyone on the Internet remains blissfully unaware, the Babylon Bee is a Calvinist satire...

October 28, 2018

Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory is a Widespread Deadly Sin

White supremacist in Charlottesville [Wikimedia C.C.]The gunman who killed 11 people this weekend at the...

October 16, 2018

An Open Letter To the So-Called Exhausted Majority

First, I'm not sure whether you actually exist. You may be the invention of the...

October 08, 2018

Why European Colonialism Shipwrecks Christian Orthodoxy

Today is the day our country celebrates the conquest and genocide of native Americans at...

October 03, 2018

“It Is The Truth That Is At Stake”

Swearing-in Ceremony for Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...

October 01, 2018

The World of the Crucified vs. The World of the #Blessed

Most of the people who read this blog post live in what we could call...

September 2018

September 27, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh and the Crisis of Authoritarian Truth

I haven't had the psychological tenacity to watch the Kavanaugh hearings today. But I have...

September 25, 2018

Creating A Safe Place To Dance

We live in a world that is sexually unsafe. Especially in college. Especially on the...

September 24, 2018

Do Spiritual Roots Matter?

Building a cohesive spiritual community with college students is the hardest thing I’ve ever...

September 15, 2018

Satan and the Scandals of the Church

Pope Francis is my problematic fave. I'm sure he's exhibited plenty of personal moral failures...

September 11, 2018

A White Man Reflects On Serena Williams

Tennis has always been an aristocrats' game. It's like golf. You take your prospective business...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

No, You Can’t Blame Pope Francis For This

[CN: church-based sexual trauma, some brief description] It's getting hard to keep quiet about the...

August 24, 2018

Did Lou Reed understand God’s kingdom better than evangelicals do?

Admittedly I put the word "evangelicals" in the title of this blog post as click-bait,...

August 19, 2018

Methodist Coloring Book

At my Thursday men's group last week, somebody brought up a song from the punk...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

Austin Channing Brown: Black Dignity In White Space

If there’s one book your church small group needs to order for this fall, it’s...

July 12, 2018

Good Biblical Words: Truth (John 1:5)

The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not seize it. John 1:5...

July 09, 2018

Good Biblical Words: Mercy (Matthew 9:13)

"Go and find out what this means: 'I desire mercy not sacrifice.'" Matthew 9:13 This...

July 03, 2018

Good Biblical Words: A Series Introduction

God has convicted me of the need to write a different set of blog posts...

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