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June 2017

June 18, 2017

Why you should read my dad’s blog

I dedicated my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us to my dad because...

June 16, 2017

No, Alcoholism and Homosexuality are Not Analogous

I blew up at a guy on the Internet for trying to make a comparison...

June 14, 2017

Resolutions Don’t Erase White Supremacy

It's a measure of how morally depraved the church has become that a Southern Baptist...

June 12, 2017

When Bishop Harvey flipped the script on bold imagination

The book of Numbers was the source text of the message this year at Louisiana's United...

June 10, 2017

How Should Christians Respond to the Demise of Donald Trump?

How should Christians respond to Donald Trump's meltdown? My first instinct is schadenfreude. Because 81%...

June 07, 2017

Why NOLA Wesley Believes In Inclusivity

When we did a series of video interviews with our students this spring, I was...

June 01, 2017

Why Toxic Christianity is a Threat to Our Planet’s Survival

Today, Donald Trump announced that the US is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, an...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

I want to be all flame

A few weeks ago, I went to my neighborhood Catholic bookstore to get a new...

May 25, 2017

Greg Gianforte is what toxic Christianity looks like

"It would be one thing for a candidate to throttle and hit a reporter, but...

May 25, 2017

Is your church going to replace Medicaid?

In announcing the Trump administration's proposed budget this week, White house budget director Mike Mulvaney...

May 24, 2017

When my heart was “strangely warmed”

On May 24th, 1738, John Wesley attended a Moravian church gathering on Aldersgate Street in...

May 19, 2017

7 Things AA Taught Me About Salvation

I would argue that what AA calls "recovery" is what Christian salvation was supposed to...

May 15, 2017

When God sent us an angel named Jay

I met him in the lounge of what Tulane calls the O, where Office of...

May 11, 2017

Why would anti-racist training be threatening to a white seminary professor?

"Of course, so-called anti-racism is anti-intellectual. It is also totalitarian and genocidally racist." That's definitely...

May 09, 2017

An open letter to Dr. Griffiths regarding the Duke Divinity crisis

Dear Dr. Griffiths, One of my deepest regrets from my time as a Duke Divinity...

May 05, 2017

Why white people should stop celebrating Cinco de Mayo

One of the most transformative moments of my life happened in Mexico. My friend Kevin...

May 03, 2017

No, there aren’t two United Methodisms

It's always easiest to imagine humanity existing in a single dualistic contrast. I do this...

May 02, 2017

United Methodism Was Designed for Relational Discipleship Not Ideological Takeover

The United Methodist Judicial Council ruled this past weekend that Karen Oliveto was elected illegally...

May 01, 2017

Jesus is illegal

I'm going to be marching today with a group of immigrants whom some people call "illegal...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

Jesus’ cross shows that divine authority comes from the margins

There's been a storm in white evangelical Christian twitter recently. Tish Warren, an Anglican priest,...

April 20, 2017

Freedom, inspiration, and solidarity: how I understand Christian salvation today

I have spent most of my adult life trying to figure out how to talk...

April 14, 2017

Seven ways that Jesus died for our sins

Painting by Bec Cranford-Smith What does it mean that Jesus died for humanity’s sins? It’s...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due” (Proverbs 3:27)

This past weekend in worship, we had the opportunity to consider Proverbs 3:27. In the...

February 23, 2017

Jesus didn’t get crucified for writing a strongly worded letter to the Sanhedrin

Mark Van Steenwyk had an interesting proposal in a recent Sojourners article: taking disruptive direct...

February 07, 2017

A Muslim immigrant who loves our country more than I do

I recently had the opportunity to interview a Muslim immigrant woman named Mona as part...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

If the Dow Jones goes up, does that mean everything is just fine?

The stock market was supposed to crash when Donald Trump became president, because of all...

January 14, 2017

Milo Yiannopoulos and misguided leftist censorship

Milo Yiannopoulos is a despicable person. In addition to his racist alt-right views, his entire platform is...

January 07, 2017

Hypersensitive college professor asks hypersensitive president-elect to protect him from his hypersensitive students

First Things senior editor and Emory English professor Mark Bauerlein is intimidated by his college...

December 2016

December 31, 2016

My top 10 blog posts from 2016

I don't do my end of year top 10 list according to popularity, because the...

December 30, 2016

Donald Trump doesn’t need your tax dollars like NOLA Wesley does

There are two days left in 2016. That means you have two days left to...