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October 2013

October 12, 2013

Ben Carson’s irresponsible rhetoric is not conservative

1 Peter 1:22 says, "Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so...

October 10, 2013

Why Ted Cruz is losing my generation of evangelicals

When you grow up evangelical, you view everything about politics through the lens of your...

October 07, 2013

The God of no compromise and the government shutdown

For many of us who grew up evangelical, the word "compromise" has always been a...

October 06, 2013

Would you refuse to negotiate if…?

Whatever your opinion about whose fault it is, our government has gotten beyond ridiculous. Many...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

The theology of government shutdown: Christian dominionism

On the eve of our government shutdown, I wanted to do some research into the...

September 26, 2013

Can God make people who don’t fit our boxes? (The #transgender question)

When I was in my early twenties, I went through a David Bowie phase. I...

September 12, 2013

It’s time for Mark Tooley to stop bullying Stanley Hauerwas and other pacifists

Galatians 5:20 says that the works of the sinful nature include "enmities, strife, jealousy, anger,...

September 07, 2013

Cakes and Quacks: Do Evangelicals Worship Democracy More Than Christ?

[Guest-post from fellow Virginia UMC pastor Jason Micheli: please check out his blog Tamed Cynic!]...

September 06, 2013

Will you pray with Francis for peace?

American politicians are eager to use the Catholic church when it comes to certain topics...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Who will save us from the white man’s burden?

"The White Man's Burden" was a poem written by a British poet Rupyard Kipling in...

August 28, 2013

Why the dream has been deferred (purity culture as the backlash against the civil rights movement)

You can't say the N word anymore. You get sued if you racially discriminate in...

August 25, 2013

Yoder-gate: learning how to speak nonviolently

Sometime in the last couple of weeks, I got wind of the John Howard Yoder...

August 13, 2013

Why you shouldn’t growl when people cry “Jim Crow” about NC’s new voting law

So what's the big deal with making people flash a photo ID at a poll...

August 12, 2013

Nope, no racism in America…

An official clown at the Missouri state fair wearing an Obama mask with a broom...

July 2013

July 28, 2013

Should allies “stay angry”? Putting @RachelHeldEvans in conversation with the Blerd Theologian @rtrdh

Should Christians "stay angry" at the injustice in our world? That's a question raised in...

July 25, 2013

Exclusively for the excluded

I recently read a post by fellow Methodist blogger Talbot Davis critiquing the pursuit of...

July 17, 2013

Is communion intellectual property?

I learned a hard lesson today. Some of you saw my post where I had...

July 16, 2013

Unsafe in black and white America

I was frustrated when I took this picture last night from the fifth row at...

July 06, 2013

Pinochet was the midwife of Chilean democracy?

The brazenness of the American neo-cons in response to the military coup in Egypt continues...

July 05, 2013

Democracy will save the brown people except when it doesn’t and then it’s Obama’s fault

David Brooks really fired me up today with this zinger about how Egypt's turmoil proves...

July 05, 2013

Property and the pursuit of happiness

As we celebrate Independence Day, I've been meditating on the inalienable rights that Thomas Jefferson...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

We are all illegal aliens in the kingdom of God

[I posted this on Red Letter Christians two years ago but the Senate's passage yesterday...

June 26, 2013

Christian holiness and the gay marriage debate

If there ever comes a time when evangelical Christians are known for something other than...

June 26, 2013

Contemplating a church-based living wage campaign

There were three resolutions for the Virginia annual conference of the United Methodist Church this...

June 15, 2013

David Brooks on America’s abandonment of #Biblical values

In David Brooks' New York Times Thursday column, he shares the story of Walter Judd,...

June 13, 2013

Is private philanthropy more efficient than the state at helping the poor?

CNN today features an article talking about the corruption in America's charity industrial complex. One...

June 05, 2013

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on race and family in North Carolina

Yesterday, over 150 social justice activists in North Carolina were arrested at the state legislature...

May 2013

May 16, 2013

Israeli youth picks prison over occupation

I just came across this video from Nathan Blanc, a 19 year old Israeli who...

May 16, 2013

The sad irony of the IRS and AP scandals

There has never been a time when somebody in our government was not misbehaving in...

May 14, 2013

Guns, government tyranny, and 1 Peter 2:13-17

In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt traces the history of European anti-Semitism through its...