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October 2015

October 05, 2015

I’m grateful that my father never owned a gun

In the aftermath of the latest tragic school shooting in Oregon, the Internet is pulsating...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Jesus would have met with Kim Davis and Gene Robinson

Nothing makes Jesus facepalm more than the stupid oversimplifications of our culture war. Apparently, some...

September 29, 2015

Two simple theological reasons why no evangelical should ever support the death penalty

As I write these words, Kelly Gissendaner is being put to death by the state...

September 28, 2015

Evangelism and conquest: the troubling legacy of Junipero Serra

One of the most controversial things that Pope Francis did on his trip to the...

September 09, 2015

#BecauseImAChristian (Not #ImAChristianBut)

A couple days ago, the twitter hashtag #ImAChristianBut was trending. I knew immediately that it...

September 07, 2015

Capitalism’s war on the Sabbath

One of the most important events in labor history happened in Exodus 20:10 when God...

September 04, 2015

The squandered witness of anti-gay “martyrdom” in an age of dehumanizing sex

I'm not going to call Kim Davis a bigot. I don't think she's a malicious...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

Disrupters, witnesses, and bridge-builders: three different tactics in the struggle for justice

In case you missed it, there's been a huge debate about the Black Lives Matter...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

Four covertly white supremacist concepts we should reconsider

White supremacy. It's not just terrorists in white hoods who burn crosses and lynch black...

June 19, 2015

Why I can’t use euphemisms for anti-gay Christians

I have many anti-gay Christians in my life and I love them at least as...

June 14, 2015

Every white ally has a little bit of Rachel Dolezal

By now, just about everyone has heard of the white woman Rachel Dolezal who's been...

June 12, 2015

If God is a cop, then every cop is God

Over the past year, as police brutality against people of color has come under increasing...

June 04, 2015

Everyone is afraid: thoughts on the panic over identity politics

My Facebook feed has blown up with a Vox article by a "liberal professor" who...

June 03, 2015

What Russell Moore gets right about transgender and intersex identity

Predictably, there have been a lot of ignorant Christian responses to Caitlyn Jenner's coming out....

May 2015

May 19, 2015

Real evangelicals don’t gloat about church decline

I'm not sure who's getting more mileage out of the Pew report on church...

May 12, 2015

The self-critique of a social justice warrior

I am a social justice warrior. I mean that in the strictly pejorative sense of...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Why is it only violence when windows get smashed?

There's something about shattered glass. It crosses a line for middle-class white people like me....

April 17, 2015

Another world is possible (a shout-out to the #FightFor15 and #DivestTulane movements)

During the past week, I have had the privilege of supporting two different political campaigns,...

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...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

On self-serving appeals to God’s sovereign “natural” order

In response to the backlash against Barack Obama's Prayer Breakfast remarks about violence that had...

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 24, 2014

The cops who need to be thanked

I know that I've been sharing a lot of troubling articles on social media about...

December 18, 2014

Original sin and the identity of the other (questioning an apparent collision of values)

At a campus ministry conference I've been attending, a conservative evangelical speaker talked about the...

December 11, 2014

The moral unseriousness of torture and other stupid “tough guy” solutions to the world’s problems

In the world of politics, most things are the opposite of what they seem. When...

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...

December 05, 2014

How Jesus saves through Michael Brown and Eric Garner

One thing that I never tire of pondering as a Christian is how Jesus' cross...

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 20, 2014

If you need for undocumented immigrants to be punished, then you don’t believe in Jesus’ cross

We have a broken immigration system. And it's broken in a way that is incredibly...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

When Martin Luther King, Jr. Clashed With White Moderate Methodists

When Martin Luther King, Jr. and his entourage descended on Birmingham, Alabama in early 1963,...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

Cock-blocking and rape culture

It's one of those phrases you know not to use in mixed company. But there's...