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April 2020

April 10, 2020

Eucharist (A Poem About The Cross)

It’s such an impossible Thing to understand that I need to eat magic food To...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Unerasing the Pueblo Crucificado

Today is Holy Saturday, the day Jesus spent in the grave. It's a day on...

March 30, 2018

Four Essential Both/Ands of Jesus’ Cross

Jesus' cross is hard to talk about. It's an impossibly awkward, illogical mystery. It's very...

April 2017

April 14, 2017

Seven ways that Jesus died for our sins

Painting by Bec Cranford-Smith What does it mean that Jesus died for humanity’s sins? It’s...

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...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

My seven salvations so far

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

April 2016

April 10, 2016

Do we need to be saved like Saul of Tarsus was saved?

Today's lectionary scripture includes Acts 9, the story of Saul's conversion into the apostle Paul....

February 2016

February 06, 2016

Christian salvation and the Beatitudes #4: The pure in heart

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. This beatitude is everything....

June 2015

June 12, 2015

If God is a cop, then every cop is God

Over the past year, as police brutality against people of color has come under increasing...

April 2015

April 03, 2015

Embracing godforsakenness: how Jesus’ cross saves the human community

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" These words that Jesus spoke on...

December 2014

December 05, 2014

How Jesus saves through Michael Brown and Eric Garner

One thing that I never tire of pondering as a Christian is how Jesus' cross...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

Do you deserve to be crucified for your sin?

This past week, Brian Zahnd and Michael Brown held a debate on the penal substitution...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

The God of no compromise and the government shutdown

For many of us who grew up evangelical, the word "compromise" has always been a...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

How the despised ones bring everything to nothing (1 Cor 1:28)

"He has chosen the lowly things of this world: the despised ones and those who...

February 2013

February 12, 2013

Ugliness Into Beauty: Six Blessings of the Cross

The LifeSign alternative worship service at Burke United Methodist Church is doing a sermon series...

July 2012

July 10, 2012

Jesus vs. zombies in Ephesians 2

This past weekend for my message on Ephesians 2:1-10, I decided on a zombie theme...