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June 2020

June 02, 2020

All Poetry Is God-Breathed

All poetry is God-breathed And useful for divine teaching Not because the words are Right...

April 2020

April 10, 2020

Eucharist (A Poem About The Cross)

It’s such an impossible Thing to understand that I need to eat magic food To...

April 10, 2020

Spikenard (A Poem About Impulsive Love)

She was not manic This time but perfectly Lucid and yet burning With the heart...

April 07, 2020

Two Poems About The Wedding Feast

I. The Party No One Has Time For Heaven is the party no one has...

April 06, 2020

Whip Of Cords (A Poem About Divine Rage)

When Jesus sat Twisting his whip of cords Together, how hard Did he bite down...

February 2020

February 01, 2020

Resisting Harm Is What Holiness Is For

One way to talk about the tragic division in contemporary American Christianity is to say...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

Sin and the Rules of the Market

A couple of weeks ago, a Calvinist bro on Twitter was talking about how liberation...

January 10, 2020

Becoming God’s Breath

I had a powerful mystical encounter today while I was talking with a friend and...

December 2019

December 13, 2019

Is David French or Mayor Pete Right About Christian Salvation?

My buddy Jason Micheli recently wrote about the gap between the Christianities of conservative evangelical...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

“Let It Fall”

My therapist told me something last week that blew my mind. The Hebrew word rafa...

June 2019

June 26, 2019

The Time Jesus Crashed An Economy To Heal An Outcast

The gospel reading for this past Sunday was the story of the Gerasene demoniac in...

February 2019

February 05, 2019

Two Visions And A Council For Our Discernment

"Saul, why do you persecute me?" "What God has made clean, you must not call...

January 2019

January 09, 2019

Why Does Holiness Matter?

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

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 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...

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...

July 2018

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...

June 2018

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...

May 2018

May 15, 2018

The Failure of Zion

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

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...

January 2018

January 09, 2018

Doubt and Neo-Calvinist Psychology

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

September 2017

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...

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 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...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

The spirit of power, love, and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7)

On Tuesday, the daily office lectionary included this verse from 2 Timothy 1:7: "God did...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

Jesus doesn’t do walls (Ephesians 2:14)

If you want to get to the core ethos of true Christianity, Ephesians 2:14 is...

January 11, 2017

What if Franklin Graham was right about God’s role in Trump’s election?

When the news broke of Russian interference in the presidential election, Franklin Graham responded with...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

So you want a Christmas gift for your distraught moderate Republican aunt?

Everyone talks about that crazy uncle. I'm sure he had some rich things to say...