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June 2020

June 03, 2020

Why True Christianity Is Anarchist

I wanted to take a few moments to talk about anarchism since Donald Trump has...

April 2020

April 13, 2020

Is Progressive Christian Twitter A Middle School Cafeteria?

During the pandemic, I have been having a fascinating and frustrating journey in my various...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

Can You Handle This Mardi Gras Unicorn?

Morgan the unicorn: The book My mother read to me Before anything happened. Are unicorns...

November 2019

November 13, 2019

Why Isn’t Perfection In Love Good Enough For Wesleyan Theology?

As United Methodism approaches our denominational apocalypse at the May 2020 General Conference, I've come...

May 2019

May 04, 2019

Rachel Held Evans and the Democratization of Theology

I was motivated to start this blog after I discovered Rachel Held Evans in 2011...

November 2018

November 20, 2018

A Love Letter to Ex-Evangelical Twitter

I debated whether to call this a love letter or an open letter. Love letter...

April 2018

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 10, 2018

Evangelicals, Woketivists, and the “Faith” of Believing Hard Things

The best preparation for me to become a woketivist as an adult was growing up...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

November 2017

November 14, 2017

Roy Moore, Jerry Falwell, Jr, and the Evangelical Authority Crisis

In an interview with the Religion News Service about alleged pedophile and Alabama Senate candidate...

October 2017

October 17, 2017

How Badly Have Traditional Christian Sexual Ethics Failed?

I was molested at an overnight lock-in for my church basketball team by the most...

August 2017

August 12, 2017

How Satan Wins in Charlottesville and Elsewhere

Last night, a group of white nationalists carrying tiki torches took over the UVA Lawn...

June 2017

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%...

May 2017

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 19, 2017

7 Things AA Taught Me About Salvation

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

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,...

November 2016

November 20, 2016

I’m with the people making sanctuary

The only positive thing about the last two weeks has been the sacred space I've...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Christian spirituality for a non-Christian audience

I've been offered an amazing opportunity by the Tulane Hillel rabbi Yonah Schiller to talk...

October 07, 2016

Let’s start an inclusive evangelical campus ministry network!

Time just ran an article about InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's witch-hunt against LGBTQ-affirming staff-people. Not staff-people...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

How do you teach thirst at a school where everyone drinks?

You have to learn how to be thirsty. And until you’re thirsty, you cannot really...

September 18, 2016

My seven salvations so far

There is nothing more anxiety-inducing about growing up Southern Baptist than the obsession with having...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

The orthodoxy of the blues

The seventh chapter of my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us is about...

August 20, 2016

Does love really trump hate or is that just a hashtag?

For the past week, I've been haunted by a moment that occurred during some dead...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

So what about those values in Melania’s plagiarized speech?

I'm used to treating political speeches like fluff. I don't expect them to actually be...

July 16, 2016

Could a queer bishop restore Wesleyan holiness to the United Methodist Church?

Last night, the Western Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church elected our first openly-queer bishop,...

July 15, 2016

Has culture war killed white Christian America?

A new book is getting buzz all over social media this week: Robert Jones's The End...

July 01, 2016

Is there a Christianity that isn’t toxic?

Have American Christians become what Jesus came to stop us from being? It’s not an...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Toxic Christian of the year: Jennifer Mayers

I'm presuming it's satire. Jennifer Mayers of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has taken over the internet...

June 29, 2016

When will I walk on water?

In the Christian publishing world, some authors walk on water; others do not. I used...