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June 2014

June 21, 2014

The Virginia Conference talks about sexuality

Like many annual conferences of the United Methodist Church, the Virginia Conference is considering a...

June 12, 2014

What does a safe and fruitful church conversation about sexuality look like?

The Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church will be meeting next weekend in Hampton,...

June 09, 2014

The gospel of the freedom to be wrong

God wants us to be family. That is how I understand the purpose of Jesus'...

June 07, 2014

Pentecost: when God rebels against her handlers

Yes, I said her. But on Pentecost you can do that. Jesus calls the one...

June 02, 2014

First draft of my 2014 #WildGoose set

I need your help if you're willing to listen to 45 minutes of music while...

June 01, 2014

What if conservatives and progressives need each other?

Nobody gets on my nerves like sanctimonious moderates. You know, the kind who are religiously...

May 2014

May 25, 2014

Klingon Christians and their gospel coalitions

In a recent post, Peter Enns writes about a certain type of Christian who doesn't...

May 15, 2014

Jesus, you tell us not to judge but…

If there's one thing that progressive and fundamentalist Christians demonstrate their enthusiastic agreement upon, it's...

May 02, 2014

How do you evangelize fundamentalists?

I don't go out of my way to befriend fundamentalists on facebook, but because of...

April 2014

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 21, 2014

Sharia law, capital punishment, and forgiveness

Sharia law. The name conjures up images of barbaric practices like stoning women for adultery...

March 2014

March 03, 2014

Why English majors make lousy fundamentalists

I think that the reason many Christians can't understand each other, particularly with regard to...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

When Bible study becomes your personal bug collection

At this Wednesday night's Ecclesia National Gathering plenary session, Mandy Smith used a great metaphor...

February 25, 2014

Two Biblical commands no Christian will ever obey

I've been at the Ecclesia National Gathering in DC. It's a network of moderate evangelicals...

February 22, 2014

Three highly ignored teachings of the New Testament: Sabbath healings, circumcision, and unclean food

One of the main reasons that many Christians fall short who are earnestly seeking to...

February 19, 2014

If I made a coloring book for my church vision…

My friend Matthew Paul Turner shared a page from the coloring book Steven Furtick has...

February 19, 2014

Our Journey as a Celibate LGBT Christian Couple (a guest post by Sarah and Lindsey from A Queer Calling)

[The following is a guest post from Lindsey and Sarah who describe themselves as a...

February 06, 2014

Why we need safe sanctuaries (two personal stories TW SA)

During the past week, there have been a lot of stories in the news about...

February 05, 2014

Al Mohler’s Nihilistic Man vs. Bill Nye’s Reasonable Man

It should come as no surprise that arch-fundamentalist Al Mohler went all in with a...

February 03, 2014

My favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman role: Magnolia’s Phil the nurse

The 1999 film Magnolia is perhaps my favorite movie of all time. It's about a...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

What if the nuns sued Uncle Sam over something other than sex?

A group of nuns called the Little Sisters of the Poor are in the news...

January 20, 2014

Salvation from “whiteness”: a subversive reading of Job

For Martin Luther King Day, I wanted to consider a very challenging quote from black...

January 13, 2014

Three different conceptions of Biblical authority

Thanks very much for your responses to my last post on Biblical inerrancy. Though some...

January 11, 2014

The two verses that torpedo Biblical inerrancy

This weekend, we will be wrestling with what it means for the Bible to be...

January 02, 2014

Miguel de Unamuno and the faith of living as if God is real

In a used book store in DC a couple of weeks ago, I found a...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Some posts I wish more people had read in 2013

I've been in a pissy mood today, and it's for a lame reason. I'm tired...

December 31, 2013

2013: The Year of the Post-Evangelical Memoir (Erika Rae, Chris Haw, Tony Kriz, Addie Zierman)

The post-evangelical memoir has exploded as a genre in the wake of Rachel Held Evans'...

December 30, 2013

How the culture wars have bastardized the concept of holiness

One of the most obnoxious things about the culture wars is the way that they...

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...