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May 2015

May 11, 2015

How would Jesus behave on social media?

Christians behave badly on social media. We're rude. We're arrogant. We gossip. We spread rumors....

May 10, 2015

The woman who taught me what grace means

This is my mom with my eldest son a few Christmases ago. She's an excellent...

May 05, 2015

“Wisdom is knowledge gained through suffering” (Elaine Heath)

I've been reading Elaine Heath and Larry Duggins' book Missional. Monastic. Mainline. for a New...

May 04, 2015

Narcissism and platform-building

The Christian blogosphere has been talking a lot about narcissism lately, particularly in the context...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

How to create sanctuary in our lives (with Terry Hershey)

This week I've been reading Terry Hershey's book Sanctuary as part of our Patheos book...

April 13, 2015

“Thank you, I’m good” (when students reject free donut holes)

Every Wednesday morning, I try to convince hundreds of power-walking Tulane students to accept a...

April 08, 2015

When people with power do not fear God

Like many others, I watched the video of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager shooting...

April 06, 2015

I choose to live in a world where resurrection happens

During Lent this year, a Presbyterian minister named John Shuck posted on the Friendly Atheist...

February 2015

February 17, 2015

On learning not to hate Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras. Everyone down here in New Orleans is enamored with it. I enjoyed... some...

February 16, 2015

Brian Williams: a Sunday school conversation

We talked about Brian Williams in Sunday school yesterday. I can't remember exactly what the...

February 13, 2015

Can Christianity be sex-positive? A chat with Dianna Anderson

Dianna Anderson is a twitter friend and conversation partner who is part of our growing tribe...

February 08, 2015

Obama, Pope Francis, and the Internet’s hatred of nuance and context

During the past week, both President Obama and Pope Francis generated Internet controversies that exemplified...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Tony Jones and the twitter court of justice

[Trigger warning: genuinely confused but well-intentioned dudebro asking honest questions that may be offensive and

January 18, 2015

How my grandpa taught me to be a pastor

This photo pretty well captures the personality of my crazy, wonderful grandpa, Ralph Storm, whose...

January 05, 2015

Make us comfortable with being uncomfortable

Yesterday in church, our pastor prayed, "Make us comfortable with being uncomfortable." I'd been looking...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Seven posts from 2014 that I wish more people read

A lot of bloggers at the end of the year put out a list of...

December 29, 2014

A hopefully friendly Christian response to the atheist ten non-commandments

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine shared a set of ten "non-commandments"...

December 15, 2014

Making space in the Advent/Christmas wars

There's a war during the Christmas season that's different than the supposed "war on Christmas"...

December 06, 2014

Media sensationalism and rape culture at my alma mater UVA (TW: rape culture)

It's been a hard couple of weeks to be a Wahoo in the wake of...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

A Thanksgiving IHOP run and my complicity in the failure of capitalism

I don't go shopping on Black Friday, not because I'm a virtuous person, but because...

November 22, 2014

Transphobia’s newest target: Winnie the Pooh

The transphobic Polish town council of Tuszyn has banished Winnie the Pooh from being a...

November 19, 2014

Two offensive analogies in the gay marriage debate from David Gushee and Andrew Wilson

During the past couple of weeks, two arguments have surfaced on opposite sides of the...

November 05, 2014

Should we accept ourselves or despise ourselves? [reflections on Henri Nouwen and Thomas a Kempis]

I've been reading two books simultaneously from two guys who have been deeply influential on...

November 02, 2014

Hello darkness, my old friend

There's a certain line that gets crossed between the normal daily inadequacies I experience and...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Is Ross Douthat right that offering communion to divorcees will bring down the Catholic church?

I had always thought of Ross Douthat as one of the "reasonable conservatives" whom I...

October 21, 2014

Where I’m actually coming from as a progressive evangelical

One of my most valuable conversation partners on the Internet is a conservative Calvinist campus...

October 16, 2014

When cis-het men play God: evangelical transphobia and the idolatry of gender

Last week, Russell Moore wrote a column for The Gospel Coalition called "Joan or John?"...

October 11, 2014

How mental illness made me a pastor

Today my son Matthew and I participated in a walk with the National Alliance on...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

“Against you alone have I sinned” (the solipsism of evangelical morality)

"Against you alone have I sinned." These words from Psalm 51:4 are attributed to the...

September 09, 2014

Does Janay Rice’s voice matter?

In my first job out of college, I was the program coordinator of the Nicaragua...