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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...

August 2020

August 10, 2020

The Clown (A Poem About God)

God, are you such a clown That you’re also the snake We have always feared...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

“All People Are Holy”: The Theology Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez summarized one of my core religious convictions in a speech given on February...

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 02, 2020

All Poetry Is God-Breathed

All poetry is God-breathed And useful for divine teaching Not because the words are Right...

May 2020

May 11, 2020

The Light That Will Not Be Seized

[This is a poem about reinterpreting the Genesis 3 Garden of Eden story and how...

April 2020

April 21, 2020

Pachamama (On Flirting With An Andean Goddess)

I met you once on a bus That was going to Zihuatenejo; You had to...

April 18, 2020

Spiritual Memoir (A Poem About My Life)

In my spiritual memoir, Satan will never have A speaking part because it’s Satan who...

April 18, 2020

You Are The Prophets

You are the prophets, not me; I am the encourager; I am the One who...

April 15, 2020

No Unimportant Stories (A Poem About Heaven)

There are no unimportant stories And when we finally exist In our final form in...

April 14, 2020

Love Letter to A Diva God (A Poem About How Love Is Delightfully Infuriating)

You have been tuning me into your song, For every time my signal fails to...

April 12, 2020

Two Poems About Easter

I. Bus Terminal There’s a feeling like we’re all Just sitting in a bus terminal...

April 10, 2020

Eucharist (A Poem About The Cross)

It’s such an impossible Thing to understand that I need to eat magic food To...

April 10, 2020

Spikenard (A Poem About Impulsive Love)

She was not manic This time but perfectly Lucid and yet burning With the heart...

April 03, 2020

Why We Need A Sangha

Sangha is a Sanskrit word whose meaning is similar to ekklesia in Greek, the word...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

Billionaires (A Poem About American Christianity)

What’s supposed to happen now Is the government gives a billion more dollars To the...

February 2020

February 01, 2020

Resisting Harm Is What Holiness Is For

One way to talk about the tragic division in contemporary American Christianity is to say...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

Sin and the Rules of the Market

A couple of weeks ago, a Calvinist bro on Twitter was talking about how liberation...

January 10, 2020

Becoming God’s Breath

I had a powerful mystical encounter today while I was talking with a friend and...

December 2019

December 13, 2019

Is David French or Mayor Pete Right About Christian Salvation?

My buddy Jason Micheli recently wrote about the gap between the Christianities of conservative evangelical...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

“Let It Fall”

My therapist told me something last week that blew my mind. The Hebrew word rafa...

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...

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...

May 2019

May 04, 2019

Rachel Held Evans and the Democratization of Theology

I was motivated to start this blog after I discovered Rachel Held Evans in 2011...

February 2019

February 05, 2019

Two Visions And A Council For Our Discernment

"Saul, why do you persecute me?" "What God has made clean, you must not call...

January 2019

January 09, 2019

Why Does Holiness Matter?

Holiness is one of the most important and controversial aspects of John Wesley's 300 year...

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...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

The Evangelical Zeal For Zeal

Fred Hartley's Dare to Be Different was one of the books that defined my evangelical...

December 24, 2018

Jesus is God’s Rebellion Against Humanity

Jesus is God's rebellion against humanity. That statement is as offensive as the real Christmas...