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February 2018

February 14, 2018

Sidewalk Ashes: An Invitation to Be Problematic For a Day

It's Ash Wednesday which means it's time for that new practice that makes the liturgical...

February 13, 2018

Hoda Katebi: What Speaking the Truth in Love Looks Like

If you have not yet seen the interview with Iranian-American blogger Hoda Katebi on Chicago's...

February 10, 2018

Why Can’t the Gospel Coalition Leave Jen Hatmaker Alone?

Ten years ago, in one of the earliest viral Youtube videos, comedian and vlogger Chris...

January 2018

January 27, 2018

Queer Women Have Always Been My Best Pastors

It's taken me some time to respond to the latest attack on women in the...

January 25, 2018

Rod Dreher, Karin McQuillan, and the Evaporation of White Taboo

For the past several decades, it has been taboo for white people to make disparaging...

January 16, 2018

Can Player Culture Get Canceled Forever?

In the 1999 film Magnolia, Tom Cruise plays professional misogynist self-help guru Frank "T.J." Mackie...

January 12, 2018

How Can We Talk Forgiveness in the Age of #MeToo?

This Sunday I will preach the kickoff sermon of the spring semester at my campus...

January 09, 2018

Doubt and Neo-Calvinist Psychology

The folks at Desiring God decided to go edgy with a recent blog post where...

January 03, 2018

On Playing Chicken With Nuclear War

Donald Trump has a bigger nuclear button than Kim Jong Un. And our global politics...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

Top 10 Posts From 2017

Well it's time again to share the top blog posts over the past year. I'm...

December 30, 2017

6 Student Testimonies from NOLA Wesley

One of the most fascinating and wonderful mysteries that I've experienced in ministry is the...

December 29, 2017

Sandhya Rani Jha: Transformation Is Local

My next conversation is with Sandhya Rani Jha, the director of the Oakland Peace Center...

December 28, 2017

Lee Wyatt’s Gospel for People Who Aren’t Guilt-Ridden

My Facebook friend Lee Wyatt has written a book called The Incredible Shrinking Gospel about the...

December 22, 2017

The Force Belongs to Stable Boys and Scavengers (A Star Wars Advent Mashup)

As I wrote in a previous post, watching Star Wars VIII was a very spiritual...

December 21, 2017

Can Jesus Forgive Sins Without Transforming the Economy? (A Response to Tim Keller)

Jesus didn't come primarily to solve the economic, political, and social problems of the world....

December 17, 2017

Thank You Crackers and Grape Juice!

When I first met Jason Micheli in the fall of 1996 at UVA's First Year...

December 16, 2017

The Faith of Sarahbeth Caplin, Jewish-Born Christian and Ex-Cru Member

I've decided to start doing author interviews on Facebook messenger in lieu of doing book...

December 15, 2017

What I Learned About Freedom From Star Wars Episode 8 (Without Spoilers!)

Watching Star Wars Episode 8 last night was an incredibly spiritual experience for me. I...

December 14, 2017

Grace, Truth, and Eucharist in an Age of Disposable People

I was originally going to write something about Roy Moore and the 81% of white...

December 08, 2017

What Would The Israelite Prophet Isaiah Say About Trump’s Jerusalem Decree?

I have apparently siloed myself from the evangelical end-timers enough not to see the triumphalist...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

Sex As Grace (Reflecting On A Discussion With College Men)

"Togetherness in Bed," rt69, Flickr C.C. This week, I decided to go through former Archbishop...

November 28, 2017

Five Causes You Should Support This #GivingTuesday

Since it's #GivingTuesday and non-profits across the country are mobilizing to raise money, I wanted...

November 27, 2017

Prayer: Waiting For the Lover Who Often Doesn’t Come

The day before Thanksgiving, I went to a used bookstore in Sulphur Springs, Texas. It...

November 15, 2017

How Will the Sydney Anglican Diocese Make Up for the $1 Million of Charitable Funds It Squandered Opposing #MarriageEquality?

For the past several months, the nation of Australia has been locked in a bitter...

November 14, 2017

Roy Moore, Jerry Falwell, Jr, and the Evangelical Authority Crisis

In an interview with the Religion News Service about alleged pedophile and Alabama Senate candidate...

November 09, 2017

Roy Moore: The Ultimate Test For Evangelicals

It really is starting to feel like something supernatural and apocalyptic is at foot in...

November 01, 2017

Is it okay to be white?

Apparently there is a national movement started by white nationalists in the netherworld of 4chan...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Ten Principles for the Next Reformation

I got to spend the weekend that marked the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation...

October 22, 2017

Why I’m not taking my blog down from Patheos even though they hired Mark Driscoll

I'm not a woman. That means that misogynist ex-pastor Mark Driscoll's words do not violate...

October 19, 2017

Why you need to read Henri Nouwen

Every other summer, my family goes to visit my wife's cousin on his ranch in...

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