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2018-05-19T13:51:41-05:00

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Imagining a World Where Love is the Way (HT Bishop Curry)

Last updated on: May 19, 2018 at 1:51 pm By Morgan Guyton

In his sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Episcopal Presiding Bishop Michael Curry invites all of us to “imagine a world where love is the way.” So I thought I would take a minute to do that. I will say that my first instinct sadly is to dismiss it as an overly flimsy concept reserved for a shallow Beatles song, a fake, feel-good, liberal “revolution.” But a world where love is the way is actually... Read more

2018-05-17T00:18:43-05:00

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Announcing… The Labyrinth

Last updated on: May 17, 2018 at 12:18 am By Morgan Guyton

The first time I walked a prayer labyrinth was at the Richmond Hill retreat center in Richmond, Virginia about 7 years ago, but walking and talking to God has been part of my spiritual life since the beginning. There’s something important about establishing specific physical places that are saturated with prayer over time, and there’s something mysterious and captivating about prayer labyrinths in particular. A labyrinth is the kind of invitation to the kingdom of God I’d like to offer.... Read more

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2018-05-16T11:00:04-05:00

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Have I Failed as a Pastor if My Students Don’t Quote Scripture?

Last updated on: May 16, 2018 at 11:00 am By Morgan Guyton

It’s a question that’s been haunting me throughout my campus ministry career. What do I need to teach my students so that when they share their testimony, they can quote an adequate number of scriptures and check enough doctrinal boxes to prove that my ministry is sufficiently “biblical”? As a Christian pastor who cannot stop being evangelical, that’s my ingrained rubric for determining whether I’ve taught my students anything. And when my students talk in ways that don’t sound sufficiently... Read more

2018-05-15T14:58:14-05:00

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The Failure of Zion

Last updated on: May 15, 2018 at 2:58 pm By Morgan Guyton

The recent massacre of dozens of Gaza protesters by Israeli snipers is a tremendous tragedy, just like the massacre of Israeli citizens by Palestinian suicide bombers during the second Intifada 17 years ago. For this massacre to take place literally at the same time that Christian fundamentalist end-times pastors John Hagee and Robert Jeffress were naming the US Embassy relocation to Jerusalem as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy is a hideous blasphemy against God and a confirmation of the failure... Read more

2018-05-14T22:14:58-05:00

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The Rich Variety of God’s Wisdom (Ephesians 3:10)

Last updated on: May 14, 2018 at 10:14 pm By Morgan Guyton

Today’s daily office epistle reading is part of the beautifully mystical letter to the Ephesians. In it, Paul talks about the “rich variety” of God’s wisdom. Here’s the passage in context: Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the Gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ, and to make everyone see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things; so... Read more

2018-05-10T16:18:44-05:00

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Bringing Many Children to Glory (Hebrews 2:10)

Last updated on: May 10, 2018 at 4:18 pm By Morgan Guyton

There are a number of verses in the Bible that summarize Christian salvation. Each of them frames it a little bit differently in terms of what is being accomplished and how. Today’s daily lectionary reading includes Hebrews 2:10: “It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” There’s something really beautiful about this salvation summary: bringing many children to glory.... Read more

2018-05-10T16:57:29-05:00

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Stand Up For Campus Workers’ Rights at Duke

Last updated on: May 10, 2018 at 4:57 pm By Morgan Guyton

An article came across my social media feed from the Durham Independent Weekly that two employees of the on-campus Joe Van Gogh cafe were fired without warning because Duke vice-president for student affairs Larry Moneta called up the owner of Joe Van Gogh to complain about a rap song that was being played when he entered the cafe. Moneta’s complaint was that the rap song had the N-word and the F-word. When he complained to the employees about it, they... Read more

2018-05-08T11:52:04-05:00

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Another Open Letter to the Wesleyan Covenant Association

Last updated on: May 8, 2018 at 11:52 am By Morgan Guyton

Dear Wesleyan Covenant Association and other like-minded United Methodists, I made a fool out of myself this past weekend by comparing some of your leaders to Paige Patterson on Twitter, so I thought I would try writing an open letter instead (like I did once before). I often think I understand you because I grew up Southern Baptist and was an on-fire evangelical in college who proselytized fellow University of Virginia students with homemade salvation tracts on the sidewalk. Some... Read more

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2018-05-03T00:26:59-05:00

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No, The Bible Does Not Condemn Domestic Violence

Last updated on: May 3, 2018 at 12:26 am By Morgan Guyton

For those of you who have been following the drama around fundamentalist seminary president Paige Patterson’s counsel to women to stay in abusive marriages rather than divorce, I’m about to say something shocking. Paige Patterson is right. The Bible condemns divorce except in cases of adultery and a very specific form of abandonment; it does not give an out for domestic violence. In response to the Paige Patterson drama, nice guy fundamentalist Russell Moore tried his best to make the Bible allow... Read more

2018-05-02T00:40:45-05:00

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Is Jesus on the Psych Ward?

Last updated on: May 2, 2018 at 12:40 am By Morgan Guyton

I have the pleasure of sharing a great conversation I had with my good friend David Finnegan-Hosey about mental health, faith, and his new book Christ on the Psych Ward. Definitely check out his book! He’s got a powerful story. MG: Maybe start off by telling me what happened in your life that allowed you to meet Jesus on the psych ward. DH: Sure. Well, in the summer of 2011, I had just finished my first year of seminary. It... Read more

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