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September 2018

September 25, 2018

Creating A Safe Place To Dance

We live in a world that is sexually unsafe. Especially in college. Especially on the...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Did Lou Reed understand God’s kingdom better than evangelicals do?

Admittedly I put the word "evangelicals" in the title of this blog post as click-bait,...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

Austin Channing Brown: Black Dignity In White Space

If there’s one book your church small group needs to order for this fall, it’s...

June 2018

June 17, 2018

A Statement Against Resolution 6 On Rescinding the Trust Clause

It's often the case that I write blogs because I can't go to sleep since...

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...

May 2018

May 24, 2018

Has Patriotism Secularized White Christianity?

Today, the NFL announced that NFL teams will be fined if their players kneel for...

May 23, 2018

Why Did Patheos Evangelical Push Out A Whistleblower Blog?

I've just been informed that the Patheos Evangelical channel has closed down the blog of...

May 17, 2018

Announcing… The Labyrinth

The first time I walked a prayer labyrinth was at the Richmond Hill retreat center...

May 08, 2018

Another Open Letter to the Wesleyan Covenant Association

Dear Wesleyan Covenant Association and other like-minded United Methodists, I made a fool out of...

May 02, 2018

Is Jesus on the Psych Ward?

I have the pleasure of sharing a great conversation I had with my good friend...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

Why Evangelicals Need #ChurchClarity

When I was a first year student at the University of Virginia in the late...

April 13, 2018

Control: The Greatest Temptation of Satan

One of my favorite songs by the dark industrial synthpop band VNV Nation is "Control"...

April 12, 2018

Why I’m Not Freaking Out About the Methodist Apocalypse

In 2019, United Methodism will experience an apocalypse. Representatives from all over the world will...

February 2018

February 14, 2018

Sidewalk Ashes: An Invitation to Be Problematic For a Day

It's Ash Wednesday which means it's time for that new practice that makes the liturgical...

January 2018

January 27, 2018

Queer Women Have Always Been My Best Pastors

It's taken me some time to respond to the latest attack on women in the...

January 25, 2018

Rod Dreher, Karin McQuillan, and the Evaporation of White Taboo

For the past several decades, it has been taboo for white people to make disparaging...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Sandhya Rani Jha: Transformation Is Local

My next conversation is with Sandhya Rani Jha, the director of the Oakland Peace Center...

December 22, 2017

The Force Belongs to Stable Boys and Scavengers (A Star Wars Advent Mashup)

As I wrote in a previous post, watching Star Wars VIII was a very spiritual...

December 16, 2017

The Faith of Sarahbeth Caplin, Jewish-Born Christian and Ex-Cru Member

I've decided to start doing author interviews on Facebook messenger in lieu of doing book...

December 15, 2017

What I Learned About Freedom From Star Wars Episode 8 (Without Spoilers!)

Watching Star Wars Episode 8 last night was an incredibly spiritual experience for me. I...

December 14, 2017

Grace, Truth, and Eucharist in an Age of Disposable People

I was originally going to write something about Roy Moore and the 81% of white...

November 2017

November 15, 2017

How Will the Sydney Anglican Diocese Make Up for the $1 Million of Charitable Funds It Squandered Opposing #MarriageEquality?

For the past several months, the nation of Australia has been locked in a bitter...

November 01, 2017

Is it okay to be white?

Apparently there is a national movement started by white nationalists in the netherworld of 4chan...

October 2017

October 22, 2017

Why I’m not taking my blog down from Patheos even though they hired Mark Driscoll

I'm not a woman. That means that misogynist ex-pastor Mark Driscoll's words do not violate...

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...

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 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...

August 2017

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...