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July 2017

July 13, 2017

The 7 Best #GospelBro Retorts to #EugenePeterson

I don't have time to write a real blog post since I'm leaving for Wild...

July 09, 2017

Five twitter theology feeds: the gospel, hyervigilant moralism, law and order, God’s glory, Good Samaritan

I've been traveling for the past week so I've only had internet access on my...

July 04, 2017

The Selective Inerrancy of Romans 13 for American Patriots

The signers of the Declaration of Independence were not biblical inerrantists. If they had been,...

July 03, 2017

When God Won’t Let Me Go Off On The Evangelicals

I was planning to go off on the evangelicals in this blog post. After First...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

False Prophets Are Known by Their Fruit

Google is filled with legalistic, fundamentalist explanations of what a false prophet is. Usually it...

June 28, 2017

The fascinating intersectionality of the word “cuck”

One of the most bizarre phenomena of the Trump era is the reintroduction of a...

June 23, 2017

Atonement: a basic explanation

Atonement is the centerpiece of Christian theology. It’s a compound word that literally means what...

June 22, 2017

A Response to Seedbed’s Five Marks of Theological Liberalism

I would not call myself a liberal Christian. I self-identify as a progressive evangelical, which...

June 20, 2017

I want to be a compatibilist when I grow up

In the United Methodist Church sexuality debate, one way to talk about the various constituencies...

June 19, 2017

My bishop whoops when she preaches

I just got back from my home annual conference of Virginia. We've got a new...

June 18, 2017

Why you should read my dad’s blog

I dedicated my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us to my dad because...

June 16, 2017

No, Alcoholism and Homosexuality are Not Analogous

I blew up at a guy on the Internet for trying to make a comparison...

June 14, 2017

Resolutions Don’t Erase White Supremacy

It's a measure of how morally depraved the church has become that a Southern Baptist...

June 12, 2017

When Bishop Harvey flipped the script on bold imagination

The book of Numbers was the source text of the message this year at Louisiana's United...

June 10, 2017

How Should Christians Respond to the Demise of Donald Trump?

How should Christians respond to Donald Trump's meltdown? My first instinct is schadenfreude. Because 81%...

June 07, 2017

Why NOLA Wesley Believes In Inclusivity

When we did a series of video interviews with our students this spring, I was...

June 01, 2017

Why Toxic Christianity is a Threat to Our Planet’s Survival

Today, Donald Trump announced that the US is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, an...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

I want to be all flame

A few weeks ago, I went to my neighborhood Catholic bookstore to get a new...

May 25, 2017

Greg Gianforte is what toxic Christianity looks like

"It would be one thing for a candidate to throttle and hit a reporter, but...

May 25, 2017

Is your church going to replace Medicaid?

In announcing the Trump administration's proposed budget this week, White house budget director Mike Mulvaney...

May 24, 2017

When my heart was “strangely warmed”

On May 24th, 1738, John Wesley attended a Moravian church gathering on Aldersgate Street in...

May 19, 2017

7 Things AA Taught Me About Salvation

I would argue that what AA calls "recovery" is what Christian salvation was supposed to...

May 15, 2017

When God sent us an angel named Jay

I met him in the lounge of what Tulane calls the O, where Office of...

May 11, 2017

Why would anti-racist training be threatening to a white seminary professor?

"Of course, so-called anti-racism is anti-intellectual. It is also totalitarian and genocidally racist." That's definitely...

May 09, 2017

An open letter to Dr. Griffiths regarding the Duke Divinity crisis

Dear Dr. Griffiths, One of my deepest regrets from my time as a Duke Divinity...

May 05, 2017

Why white people should stop celebrating Cinco de Mayo

One of the most transformative moments of my life happened in Mexico. My friend Kevin...

May 03, 2017

No, there aren’t two United Methodisms

It's always easiest to imagine humanity existing in a single dualistic contrast. I do this...

May 02, 2017

United Methodism Was Designed for Relational Discipleship Not Ideological Takeover

The United Methodist Judicial Council ruled this past weekend that Karen Oliveto was elected illegally...

May 01, 2017

Jesus is illegal

I'm going to be marching today with a group of immigrants whom some people call "illegal...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

Jesus’ cross shows that divine authority comes from the margins

There's been a storm in white evangelical Christian twitter recently. Tish Warren, an Anglican priest,...

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