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April 2020

April 20, 2020

Cancel (Another Poem About Twitter)

Beelzebub was presiding over the Convention of demons he had Gathered to strategize about what...

April 06, 2020

Whip Of Cords (A Poem About Divine Rage)

When Jesus sat Twisting his whip of cords Together, how hard Did he bite down...

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 20, 2020

The Difference Between Happiness And Joy

What is the difference between happiness and joy? I remember this being a common evangelical...

January 2019

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...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

Sex As Grace (Reflecting On A Discussion With College Men)

"Togetherness in Bed," rt69, Flickr C.C. This week, I decided to go through former Archbishop...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Six things that make white Christian America toxic

Since it's Donald Trump's big week and he's an excellent bellwether of the toxicity of...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

The great spiritual battle of the 21st century

One of the most poignant ironies of the great spiritual battle of the 20th century...

April 12, 2016

The most important thing I do to #ResistCapitalism

I was a hypocrite this weekend and thankfully no one called me out. There was...

April 05, 2016

Can Jesus save us from keeping score? #MercyNotSacrifice

From now until the release of my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us,...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

10 posts I wish more people had seen this year

Since everyone is doing their end-of-year top 10 posts, I figured I would do the...

November 2015

November 01, 2015

Seven points of contention in today’s reformation

So it's that time of year known as Reformation Sunday when we remember the anniversary...

September 2015

September 07, 2015

Capitalism’s war on the Sabbath

One of the most important events in labor history happened in Exodus 20:10 when God...

April 2015

April 13, 2015

“Thank you, I’m good” (when students reject free donut holes)

Every Wednesday morning, I try to convince hundreds of power-walking Tulane students to accept a...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

A Thanksgiving IHOP run and my complicity in the failure of capitalism

I don't go shopping on Black Friday, not because I'm a virtuous person, but because...

April 2014

April 22, 2014

Six ways that capitalism fails the church

The religion blog forum Patheos is hosting a Public Square conversation called "Has Capitalism Failed?"...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

The three “family values” behind Black Friday

As I was reading several interviews with people standing in line for this year's Black...

June 2013

June 15, 2013

David Brooks on America’s abandonment of #Biblical values

In David Brooks' New York Times Thursday column, he shares the story of Walter Judd,...

June 13, 2013

Is private philanthropy more efficient than the state at helping the poor?

CNN today features an article talking about the corruption in America's charity industrial complex. One...

April 2013

April 18, 2013

How did Jesus come to love guns and hate sex?

Since the gun debate is back in the news, I figured I would pull this...

April 11, 2013

Amazon and the Soviet Consumerism of 21st Century Capitalism

When I was a child in the eighties, I remember having a conversation with my...

April 05, 2013

James KA Smith summarizes the battle of the 21st century

I've just started reading James KA Smith's new book Imagining the Kingdom. Smith's basic argument...

January 2013

January 12, 2013

Lust, patriarchy, and capitalism: a response to Dianna Anderson

I had an interesting twitter conversation today with a Christian feminist blogger named Dianna Anderson...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Looking Back on 2012: Oct-Dec

Since it's the last day of 2012, I have to cover three months in this...

December 10, 2012

Is God a capitalist? (John Locke and the Romans Road)

One of the theories Doug Campbell advances in The Deliverance of God is that the...

October 2012

October 08, 2012

Theology of capitalism: entrepreneurs vs. money-changers

There are two different stories people tell about capitalism. Those who describe capitalism favorably say...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

God built it; we didn’t

I used to build enormous towers out of blocks when I was four years old....

August 30, 2012

Why the market is a greater threat to freedom than the government

Freedom is one of those words that seems to have a very straightforward definition. It...

August 23, 2012

3 gospel stories made into Atlas Shrugged

In the Catholic America magazine, James Martin, S.J. offers the following retelling of familiar gospel...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

Did rock and roll destroy our culture?

My wife and I went to see "Rock of Ages" last night as part of...