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August 2020

August 10, 2020

The Clown (A Poem About God)

God, are you such a clown That you’re also the snake We have always feared...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

“All People Are Holy”: The Theology Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez summarized one of my core religious convictions in a speech given on February...

June 28, 2020

Epimenides And The Plague Of Athens

[This is a guest-post from my father John Guyton who's interested in the parallel between...

June 01, 2020

Dehumanization Is The Real Enemy

We are living in demonic times. Whatever you believe about Satan, I use the word...

April 2020

April 23, 2020

Canyon (A Poem About Discipline)

I can choose which way My river flows. Not every song Obliges me; Not every...

April 21, 2020

Pachamama (On Flirting With An Andean Goddess)

I met you once on a bus That was going to Zihuatenejo; You had to...

April 12, 2020

Two Poems About Easter

I. Bus Terminal There’s a feeling like we’re all Just sitting in a bus terminal...

April 03, 2020

Why We Need A Sangha

Sangha is a Sanskrit word whose meaning is similar to ekklesia in Greek, the word...

March 2020

March 27, 2020

Please Donate To Support Ugandan LGBTI Community!

Dear blog followers, I received the following emergency appeal from the director of the Universal...

March 24, 2020

Billionaires (A Poem About American Christianity)

What’s supposed to happen now Is the government gives a billion more dollars To the...

March 18, 2020

Attune and Contain: Two Counseling Concepts To Survive The Apocalypse

Having been trained in attachment-based, psychodynamic counseling, I often have a bit of an inferiority...

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...

September 2019

September 17, 2019

The Bursting Of The Methodist Wineskin

One of the most uncomfortable and least talked about parables of Jesus is his parable...

August 2019

August 20, 2019

Methodism Needs A No Fault Divorce

I'm not the best person at parsing through details. Right now I'm in the thick...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

Can “Social Justice” Christianity Be Anti-Gay?

This past Friday, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that inaugurated the gay...

May 2019

May 04, 2019

Rachel Held Evans and the Democratization of Theology

I was motivated to start this blog after I discovered Rachel Held Evans in 2011...

March 2019

March 05, 2019

Testimony from a Queer African Christian

[The following is a testimony from Turinawe Samson, the founder of Universal Love Alliance, the...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

The Evangelism of a Thousand Clergy Trials

I denied Christ, just like Simon Peter when the cock crowed. It was a couple...

January 25, 2019

Can Abortion Be Morally Complex?

The pro-life movement is all over social media up in arms over the new New...

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 28, 2018

The Evangelical Zeal For Zeal

Fred Hartley's Dare to Be Different was one of the books that defined my evangelical...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

Can ICE and Immigrants Worship Together?

Yesterday my friend and mentor Brian Zahnd got a lot of flak for tweeting about...

November 09, 2018

Amicable Separation Or Political Leverage?

Last weekend was the first-ever global legislative assembly for the Wesleyan Covenant Association, the United...

October 2018

October 16, 2018

An Open Letter To the So-Called Exhausted Majority

First, I'm not sure whether you actually exist. You may be the invention of the...

October 08, 2018

Why European Colonialism Shipwrecks Christian Orthodoxy

Today is the day our country celebrates the conquest and genocide of native Americans at...

October 01, 2018

The World of the Crucified vs. The World of the #Blessed

Most of the people who read this blog post live in what we could call...

September 2018

September 27, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh and the Crisis of Authoritarian Truth

I haven't had the psychological tenacity to watch the Kavanaugh hearings today. But I have...