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March 2020

March 30, 2020

Zen and God’s Grace

One consistent part of my spiritual journey for the past twenty years has been my...

December 2017

December 08, 2017

What Would The Israelite Prophet Isaiah Say About Trump’s Jerusalem Decree?

I have apparently siloed myself from the evangelical end-timers enough not to see the triumphalist...

December 03, 2016

What if they’re the ones who know Jesus better than we do?

What if they’re the ones who know Jesus better than we do? What if they...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

Intersectionality for bewildered white evangelicals

In the Washington Post this week, white evangelical millennial leader Katelyn Beaty said, "I can’t...

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 28, 2015

Evangelism and conquest: the troubling legacy of Junipero Serra

One of the most controversial things that Pope Francis did on his trip to the...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Who will save us from the white man’s burden?

"The White Man's Burden" was a poem written by a British poet Rupyard Kipling in...

May 2013

May 17, 2013

Tony Jones & the white emergentsia’s “Pentecostal problem”

Because I like to go against the grain, I wanted to try to stick up...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Sex-trafficking, colonialism, and miscommunication

I found a direct application that fleshes out a little better what I stumbled through...

January 08, 2013

Frantz Fanon and Isaiah 61

Isaiah 61 was the Daily Office Old Testament reading for today. Some of you will...

June 2011

June 17, 2011

God's not at work unless I'm in charge

I'm continuing my travelogue through Willie Jennings' Christian Imagination as a way of coping with...

June 17, 2011

God’s not at work unless I’m in charge

I'm continuing my travelogue through Willie Jennings' Christian Imagination as a way of coping with...