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September 2020

September 23, 2020

When God’s A Cop, Every Cop Is God

Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY, sent...

June 2020

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 08, 2020

Do We Need Cops?

I need to confess something that will make me look unwoke. I was a bit...

June 06, 2020

Thugs (A Poem About Men In Uniform Who Shove The Elderly)

They’re doing what They’re supposed to do; The Bible even says that The role of...

June 01, 2020

Dehumanization Is The Real Enemy

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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 03, 2018

“It Is The Truth That Is At Stake”

Swearing-in Ceremony for Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...

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 29, 2018

Civility Is The Opposite of Taking Up Your Cross

It's an ancient image from July 2016, in a different age before Donald Trump was...

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 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 15, 2018

The Failure of Zion

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

April 2018

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 03, 2018

When Martyrs’ Legacies Are Whitewashed and Coopted

Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, he had...

April 01, 2018

Easter Is For People Who Aren’t Winning

Why does it matter that Jesus was raised from the dead? Perhaps it doesn't if...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Unerasing the Pueblo Crucificado

Today is Holy Saturday, the day Jesus spent in the grave. It's a day on...

January 2018

January 03, 2018

On Playing Chicken With Nuclear War

Donald Trump has a bigger nuclear button than Kim Jong Un. And our global politics...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

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...