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October 2017

October 17, 2017

How Badly Have Traditional Christian Sexual Ethics Failed?

I was molested at an overnight lock-in for my church basketball team by the most...

October 12, 2017

Empathy vs. scorn

The more connected Christians become with Jesus, the more their hearts will burn with empathy...

October 11, 2017

What religion does this meme represent?

So apparently this meme has been circulating some circles on the internet: stand for the...

October 02, 2017

Some Thoughts on “Thoughts and Prayers”

Prayer is always primarily about the transformation of the one doing it.

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Alcoholics need solidarity, not “education about the effects of alcohol”

My friend Canela Lopez recently co-authored an article in the Tulane Hullabaloo about the out-of-control...

September 27, 2017

Introducing the Raw Movement, a Tulane student initiative

Today I'm sharing a guest post from a Tulane student named Cassidy Oberleitner who...

September 26, 2017

Our 8 coolest ministry moments so far this year

1. 85 people have come to NOLA Wesley this year! We have had 85 people...

September 23, 2017

When It Became My Duty Not to Stand for the National Anthem

The gift that Trump has given to American Christians is to reveal what is at...

September 16, 2017

40 Bible Verses for 40 Years of Life

Since I'm forty today, I wanted to share forty Bible verses that are meaningful to...

September 13, 2017

An interview with Jeff Hood, author of The Execution of God

Jeff Hood is a long-time death penalty activist operating in the Dallas-Forth Worth area. He's...

September 13, 2017

“Woe to you who are filled” (Luke 6:25)

Today is the feast day of St. John Chrysostom in the Roman Catholic Church. At...

September 06, 2017

#DACA and the Failure of Atonement in the American Church

Once again, I feel demoralized by the cynicism and intransigence in our nation's immigration policy.

August 2017

August 30, 2017

The Christians United Statement In Support of LGBT Inclusion

Post-evangelical social media got fired up yesterday after the release of an anti-queer statement from the...

August 26, 2017

The Theology That Pardons White Supremacy

Last night I witnessed a white United Methodist pastor seeking to justify Donald Trump's pardon...

August 24, 2017

A conversation with my son about the difference between history and historiography

My older son and I have been having some conversations during the past year about...

August 18, 2017

Why I Don’t Believe in Punching Nazis

First of all, I have not yet participated in a protest where Antifa was present....

August 17, 2017

The week I stopped hating white evangelical men

[Content Note: childhood sexual trauma] Sometimes my personal life is out of step with the...

August 15, 2017

Charlottesville: a first-hand account of racist violence

[I asked my dear friend Deborah Porras to share her eyewitness account of what happened...

August 13, 2017

What If This Is the New Church?

I've been thinking about what I would preach today if I were preaching. And I...

August 12, 2017

How Satan Wins in Charlottesville and Elsewhere

Last night, a group of white nationalists carrying tiki torches took over the UVA Lawn...

August 11, 2017

The spiritual discipline of backing down

As I write this, the world has been taken hostage by a high-stakes game of...

August 08, 2017

Is it un-Christ-like to drag a famous theologian online?

I got in trouble this weekend for a Facebook post in which I expressed regret...

August 04, 2017

Why Is NT Wright Calling Transgender People Gnostics?

The Gnostics would be puzzled by Wright's attribution of their philosophy to transgender people.

August 03, 2017

How AA defines holiness

The entry in AA's Daily Reflections for today says, "Our real purpose is to fit ourselves...

August 02, 2017

How do I preach the gospel at the #1 party school in the country?

It's official. The Princeton Review has declared Tulane University the #1 party school in the...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

What Does Winning Look Like for Christians?

Before Donald Trump became president, he promised that if he were elected, Americans would "win...

July 24, 2017

Mixed race bathing in east Tennessee (a poem)

I've been to pools with black people before There were five maybe six not twenty...

July 23, 2017

When Jesus’ garden becomes a monoculture

I have been a gardener for many years. And I hate weeds. In Louisiana, the...

July 19, 2017

7 Ways I’m Not Entirely Progressive

I just got back from the Wild Goose Festival. It's a great experience every year,...

July 17, 2017

If Jesus Had Been Eugene Peterson

Members of the Sanhedrin, I understand that the charges against me are quite serious. So...

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