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July 2016

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 28, 2016

Can queer pride save the American church?

This past Friday, as the financial world was reeling in the wake of the Brexit...

June 22, 2016

Detoxify Christian lingo #1: Salvation

I've decided to write a series of blog posts focusing on some of the Christian...

June 10, 2016

To mainline Christian parents of rising college freshmen

My campus ministry has been tabling at the parent resource fair that's part of Tulane's...

May 2016

May 05, 2016

Seven easy ways you can help me promote my book

No Not to be blunt, but it's up to you what happens with this book....

April 2016

April 15, 2016

Seven retweetable quotes from my book

Using social media to promote my book makes me hate everything. It's like standing in...

April 06, 2016

Queerness, the idolatry of norms, and the “new” morality

I wish that United Theological Seminary president David Watson could have been at lunch with...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

Five ways you can help me launch my book

There's nothing more obnoxious than authors promoting their books. It always makes me roll my...

January 18, 2016

MLK and the peace that isn’t peace

In church yesterday, our community prayer included several quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr....

January 11, 2016

Can American Christianity be detoxified? (A summary of my first book)

Have we become what Jesus came to stop us from being? Many evangelical Christians in...

December 2015

December 25, 2015

The God who reigns as a baby

Can you bow before a God who has come to Earth as a baby? That's...

December 14, 2015

Three Islamic concepts I wish Christians would adopt

Ross Douthat has been playing amateur theologian again in the New York Times. This time,...

December 05, 2015

Is gunslinger Christianity even actually conservative?

I'm not sure what the right adjective is for the kind of Christianity espoused by...

September 2015

September 09, 2015

#BecauseImAChristian (Not #ImAChristianBut)

A couple days ago, the twitter hashtag #ImAChristianBut was trending. I knew immediately that it...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Why moralistic meritocracy is incompatible with Christian teaching

There's a meme going around Facebook about a famous football player who boasts that he...

May 2015

May 13, 2015

What if churches were temples instead of programs?

The latest buzz on the Christian internet is the Pew research report about Christianity's decline in...

December 2013

December 01, 2013

What legacy have we inherited? Reflections on “12 Years A Slave.”

My wife and I watched "12 Years A Slave" this weekend. Needless to say, it...

August 2013

August 07, 2013

#WildGoose13: What should emergent Christianity do about its whiteness?

When people want to take potshots at emergent Christianity, an easy bullseye to tag is...

June 2013

June 23, 2013

Are there other “gods” besides #God?

I'm working through the fourth chapter of Greg Boyd's God At War, in which he...

April 2013

April 20, 2013

So what about other religions?

We've been having a very stimulating conversation at our confirmation retreat that has completely derailed...

September 2012

September 04, 2012

Are Mormons Christian?

There's been a lot of conversation in the blogosphere about whether or not Mormons should...