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June 2018

June 29, 2018

Civility Is The Opposite of Taking Up Your Cross

It's an ancient image from July 2016, in a different age before Donald Trump was...

June 19, 2018

How Should White People Handle White Tears?

White feelings can be dangerous for people of color. When a white police officer feels...

June 17, 2018

A Statement Against Resolution 6 On Rescinding the Trust Clause

It's often the case that I write blogs because I can't go to sleep since...

June 16, 2018

What Does Church Unity Look Like?

I'm currently at the Virginia annual conference, the yearly gathering where United Methodist laity and...

June 15, 2018

Jeff Sessions and Law and Order Christianity

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a United Methodist layperson. Somewhere along the way in his...

June 12, 2018

Accepting Carolyn Moore’s Invitation to Higher Conversation

Carolyn Moore is probably my favorite conservative United Methodist leader. What I see in her...

June 08, 2018

On Receiving A Trophy I Didn’t Earn

The Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church has a practice each annual conference of...

June 01, 2018

Mommy-Shaming Ivanka Trump Doesn’t Make Immigrants Safe

Ivanka Trump posted this photo with her son on Twitter because she's a mom and...

May 2018

May 24, 2018

Has Patriotism Secularized White Christianity?

Today, the NFL announced that NFL teams will be fined if their players kneel for...

May 23, 2018

Why Did Patheos Evangelical Push Out A Whistleblower Blog?

I've just been informed that the Patheos Evangelical channel has closed down the blog of...

May 19, 2018

Imagining a World Where Love is the Way (HT Bishop Curry)

In his sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Episcopal Presiding...

May 17, 2018

Announcing… The Labyrinth

The first time I walked a prayer labyrinth was at the Richmond Hill retreat center...

May 16, 2018

Have I Failed as a Pastor if My Students Don’t Quote Scripture?

It's a question that's been haunting me throughout my campus ministry career. What do I...

May 15, 2018

The Failure of Zion

The recent massacre of dozens of Gaza protesters by Israeli snipers is a tremendous tragedy,...

May 14, 2018

The Rich Variety of God’s Wisdom (Ephesians 3:10)

Today's daily office epistle reading is part of the beautifully mystical letter to the Ephesians....

May 10, 2018

Bringing Many Children to Glory (Hebrews 2:10)

There are a number of verses in the Bible that summarize Christian salvation. Each of...

May 09, 2018

Stand Up For Campus Workers’ Rights at Duke

An article came across my social media feed from the Durham Independent Weekly that two...

May 08, 2018

Another Open Letter to the Wesleyan Covenant Association

Dear Wesleyan Covenant Association and other like-minded United Methodists, I made a fool out of...

May 03, 2018

No, The Bible Does Not Condemn Domestic Violence

For those of you who have been following the drama around fundamentalist seminary president Paige...

May 02, 2018

Is Jesus on the Psych Ward?

I have the pleasure of sharing a great conversation I had with my good friend...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

Is Hell the Reason to Love Jesus?

Tim Keller wrote two books Prodigal God and Generous Justice that really shaped me and which...

April 18, 2018

Plowshares Still Have Blades

This past Sunday, I preached on Micah 4:1-5. If you'd like to hear what I...

April 17, 2018

Why Evangelicals Need #ChurchClarity

When I was a first year student at the University of Virginia in the late...

April 13, 2018

Control: The Greatest Temptation of Satan

One of my favorite songs by the dark industrial synthpop band VNV Nation is "Control"...

April 12, 2018

Why I’m Not Freaking Out About the Methodist Apocalypse

In 2019, United Methodism will experience an apocalypse. Representatives from all over the world will...

April 10, 2018

Evangelicals, Woketivists, and the “Faith” of Believing Hard Things

The best preparation for me to become a woketivist as an adult was growing up...

April 03, 2018

When Martyrs’ Legacies Are Whitewashed and Coopted

Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, he had...

April 01, 2018

Easter Is For People Who Aren’t Winning

Why does it matter that Jesus was raised from the dead? Perhaps it doesn't if...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Unerasing the Pueblo Crucificado

Today is Holy Saturday, the day Jesus spent in the grave. It's a day on...

March 30, 2018

Four Essential Both/Ands of Jesus’ Cross

Jesus' cross is hard to talk about. It's an impossibly awkward, illogical mystery. It's very...

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