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September 2014

September 09, 2014

Does Janay Rice’s voice matter?

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

August 2014

August 20, 2014

Could you listen to an angry black Jesus?

I know. He doesn't look all that angry. There just aren't any good angry black...

August 14, 2014

Our gated communities and the black bogeyman that haunts us

I decided to take a picture of the most violent thing I've seen so far...

August 01, 2014

A song that shows how war can destroy your humanity

This video was recorded in Tel Aviv by Ha'aertz journalist Haim Har-Zahav. The lyrics of...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

The only two sides of any human conflict for Christians who love their enemies

We live in a world that loves to draw lines between "us" and "them." This...

July 20, 2014

An enemy is someone whose story you haven’t heard

A couple of weeks ago, Brian Zahnd preached a sermon on the healing of Naaman...

July 18, 2014

When children get in the way of our boundaries in Gaza and California

Children get in the way. It's what they do. My children get in my way...

June 2014

June 05, 2014

Should the #UMC ask King Solomon how to cut a baby in half?

Two women stood before King Solomon in 1 Kings 3:16-28 with one baby, both claiming...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Is there any #UMC accountability for resisting injustice and oppression?

It seems like in United Methodism as with many things, there are unspoken rules about...

May 23, 2014

Let them go in peace and start over from scratch like Wesley did

The United Methodist blogosphere has been fired up after a recent announcement that 80 prominent...

May 19, 2014

Some ambivalent thoughts on Sovereign Grace, the Gospel Coalition, and Twitter

The evangelical twittersphere has been reverberating over the past few days with the hashtag #IStandWithSGMVictims....

May 06, 2014

Would Jesus pray at a city council meeting?

The more that I think about the recent Supreme Court ruling defending the use of...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Anti-semitism, apartheid, and sensitivity in talking about Israel

John Kerry got in trouble. His crime, as Israeli columnist Noam Sheifaz put it, was...

April 29, 2014

Would Obama be “winning” in the Ukraine if he “baptized” more terrorists?

Sarah Palin told a recent crowd at an NRA rally that "if [she] were in...

April 28, 2014

Donald Sterling and the Tyranny of the Outrage Police

One of the best things that I've read about the drama surrounding cranky racist white...

April 26, 2014

“Color-blinded-ness” IS racism

There's been a lot of conversation about the Supreme Court ruling to end affirmative action...

April 22, 2014

Six ways that capitalism fails the church

The religion blog forum Patheos is hosting a Public Square conversation called "Has Capitalism Failed?"...

February 2014

February 21, 2014

Why my heart is torn between Russian Orthodoxy and Pussy Riot

A few months ago, First Things ran a post critiquing emergenty evangelicals like me for...

February 18, 2014

No, David Brooks, the poor are not the prodigal son

David Brooks has done it again. This time he wrote a column about how America's...

February 12, 2014

The Bible has room for more than one gay Christian story

A couple of weeks ago, at Wheaton College, a very interesting dialogue happened. The campus...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Church, I think we’re gonna be okay

The past several years of my life have been building up to a three and...

January 15, 2014

Do we want to live in a world where people get shot for texting?

It made me really sad and a little bit frightened to read about the latest...

January 05, 2014

When the Equal Rights Amendment was “gay marriage”

The amnesia of America culture always fascinates me particularly with regard to the things that...

January 03, 2014

A letter that captures the heart of the Methodist conflict

The Institute of Religion and Democracy just published a letter from a retired professor Walter...

December 2013

December 28, 2013

When pro-life goes Frankenstein: the case of Marlise Munoz

Erick and Marlise Munoz were both paramedics. They were both around life-and-death situations on a...

December 26, 2013

Since you’ve all been waiting for my two cents on the #DuckDrama…

It was so great to fast from my blog over Advent. The only thing I...

December 01, 2013

What legacy have we inherited? Reflections on “12 Years A Slave.”

My wife and I watched "12 Years A Slave" this weekend. Needless to say, it...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

My duty to the Bible’s living interpretive tradition

I had a good discussion yesterday with my pastor covenant group about our discernment process...

November 20, 2013

Justice of the heart and Frank Schaefer

This week, the United Methodist Church put a pastor on trial named Frank Schaefer for...

November 14, 2013

The United Methodist gay wedding crisis

Thomas Frank, the guy who wrote our textbook on United Methodist polity, has made a...