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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...

November 09, 2018

Amicable Separation Or Political Leverage?

Last weekend was the first-ever global legislative assembly for the Wesleyan Covenant Association, the United...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Can Wesleyanism Evolve Or Does It Belong To The 18th Century?

The continuous meta-debate within the United Methodist debate is to ask: what are we really...

October 01, 2018

The World of the Crucified vs. The World of the #Blessed

Most of the people who read this blog post live in what we could call...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Did Lou Reed understand God’s kingdom better than evangelicals do?

Admittedly I put the word "evangelicals" in the title of this blog post as click-bait,...

August 19, 2018

Methodist Coloring Book

At my Thursday men's group last week, somebody brought up a song from the punk...

June 2018

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...

June 12, 2018

Accepting Carolyn Moore’s Invitation to Higher Conversation

Carolyn Moore is probably my favorite conservative United Methodist leader. What I see in her...

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,...

May 10, 2018

Bringing Many Children to Glory (Hebrews 2:10)

There are a number of verses in the Bible that summarize Christian salvation. Each of...

May 08, 2018

Another Open Letter to the Wesleyan Covenant Association

Dear Wesleyan Covenant Association and other like-minded United Methodists, I made a fool out of...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

Why Evangelicals Need #ChurchClarity

When I was a first year student at the University of Virginia in the late...

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 12, 2018

Why I’m Not Freaking Out About the Methodist Apocalypse

In 2019, United Methodism will experience an apocalypse. Representatives from all over the world will...

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...

March 30, 2018

Four Essential Both/Ands of Jesus’ Cross

Jesus' cross is hard to talk about. It's an impossibly awkward, illogical mystery. It's very...

February 2018

February 14, 2018

Sidewalk Ashes: An Invitation to Be Problematic For a Day

It's Ash Wednesday which means it's time for that new practice that makes the liturgical...

February 10, 2018

Why Can’t the Gospel Coalition Leave Jen Hatmaker Alone?

Ten years ago, in one of the earliest viral Youtube videos, comedian and vlogger Chris...

January 2018

January 27, 2018

Queer Women Have Always Been My Best Pastors

It's taken me some time to respond to the latest attack on women in the...

January 09, 2018

Doubt and Neo-Calvinist Psychology

The folks at Desiring God decided to go edgy with a recent blog post where...

December 2017

December 31, 2017