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December 2012

December 13, 2012

The "Kantian" and "Nietzschean" threads of evangelical piety

There are certain rhetorical moves that evangelicals make in their arguments to "out-pious" their interlocutors....

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Why you need to listen to Brian Zahnd

I'm about to leave on a youth retreat so I don't have time for a...

November 23, 2012

Mercy Not Sacrifice: A Recovering Evangelical’s Manifesto

I desperately need your help and feedback in pulling this book together. I have shared...

November 14, 2012

Why leadership is my least favorite word

In the church planter training today, I've been learning why the word "leadership" makes me...

November 13, 2012

A vision for my future church plant

I'm spending this week at the Virginia conference's New Church Leadership Institute training for church...

November 02, 2012

This is my Father's world (a rap for Emily)

I wrote a rap version of "This is my Father's world" in 2009 for the...

November 01, 2012

Biblical Womanhood: What Kathy Keller missed

I'm not sure how long the manilla package sat in the bin beside my desk....

October 2012

October 26, 2012

Why Al Mohler doesn’t get Rachel Held Evans

So Rachel Held Evans is apparently becoming this year's Rob Bell. She's written a book...

October 20, 2012

Conversation with a None in the sauna

"This seems like a great place to meditate," he said. I usually don't talk to...

October 15, 2012

Garden Walls (a reappropriated love song about prevenient grace)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQh6eISTpHM&feature=youtu.be In 1999, I wrote a sonnet while sitting on a couch at a party...

October 13, 2012

Why soccer makes yuppies neurotic

First of all, I'm a yuppie. I drive a Prius and my wife drives a...

October 09, 2012

How can Jerry Sandusky get into heaven?

Jerry Sandusky was on the TV at the gym this morning, since his sentencing is...

October 08, 2012

Unity in the body of Christ (Ephesians 4:1-16)

As part of our celebration of World Communion Sunday this weekend at Burke United Methodist...

October 05, 2012

“Are you not going to answer?”

I don't plan on watching any of the presidential debates because honestly the whole concept...

October 05, 2012

"Are you not going to answer?"

I don't plan on watching any of the presidential debates because honestly the whole concept...

October 02, 2012

Ministry with the poor and middle-class self-hate

My name is Morgan Guyton and I'm a recovering middle-class self-hater. I also love hanging...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Ray Foss is my hero!

I just wanted to take a moment to give a shout out to a guy...

September 28, 2012

Jesus wasn’t stingy with His platform

I'm going to be a little raw. I've been wrestling with God about this whole...

September 23, 2012

How I became a Pentecostal preacher

Okay so I'm still officially a United Methodist, but I became a Pentecostal preacher this...

September 20, 2012

#JesusIsMyCandidate: the rap

I made this piece while we were making Jesus trend around the world last night....

September 17, 2012

Why we need to build this meme: #JesusIsMyCandidate

It was only supposed to be a catchy sermon series to attract attention for our...

September 10, 2012

Chuck DeGroat on "Men Without Fear"

One of the most obnoxious things for me about contemporary evangelicalism has been the neo-masculinist...

September 05, 2012

On Being Salt in the Public Discourse

A recent Atlantic Wire article describes a study that demonstrates our society's moral decline by...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

Submission As Leadership, Marriage As Mutual Servanthood

Few verses in the Bible have been more damaging historically to women in Western civilization...

August 21, 2012

Why I hate success and love the Beatitudes

Success is the American virtue. Its pursuit is what drives just about every aspect of...

August 14, 2012

David Barton and the conservative rediscovery of integrity

One of the most hopeful things that I have witnessed in recent times was the...

August 09, 2012

What if he grows up to be gay?

People will be offended by this post for a variety of reasons, but I've been...

July 2012

July 18, 2012

My one question for Doug Wilson

The Christian blogosphere has been on fire after a recent blog post by Jared Wilson...

July 16, 2012

Did rock and roll destroy our culture?

My wife and I went to see "Rock of Ages" last night as part of...

July 06, 2012

Why I’m not offended by so-called “socialism”

In a recent interview with George Stephanopoulos, Congressman Paul Ryan said that he had a...