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September 2020

September 23, 2020

When God’s A Cop, Every Cop Is God

Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY, sent...

August 2020

August 10, 2020

The Clown (A Poem About God)

God, are you such a clown That you’re also the snake We have always feared...

May 2020

May 11, 2020

The Light That Will Not Be Seized

[This is a poem about reinterpreting the Genesis 3 Garden of Eden story and how...

May 04, 2020

Home (A Poem About A Mother Who Waits)

Mom wants you to come home: I am not the older brother, Only a goofy...

May 02, 2020

Can We Have a Queer, Erotic God?

One of my more mischievous hobbies during the pandemic over the past few days has...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

Erotic About God (A Poem About Holy Feelings)

Feelings are not things To be condemned but Things to be refined. The reason Sunday...

April 28, 2020

The Book (A Poem About Hegemony)

This may not be the right question but Are you a character in a book...

April 18, 2020

Spiritual Memoir (A Poem About My Life)

In my spiritual memoir, Satan will never have A speaking part because it’s Satan who...

April 17, 2020

Thumb Tacks (A Poem About Memories)

My medicine today is thumb tacks -- I threw out every other crutch (Except my...

April 15, 2020

No Unimportant Stories (A Poem About Heaven)

There are no unimportant stories And when we finally exist In our final form in...

April 14, 2020

Love Letter to A Diva God (A Poem About How Love Is Delightfully Infuriating)

You have been tuning me into your song, For every time my signal fails to...

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...

February 2020

February 01, 2020

Resisting Harm Is What Holiness Is For

One way to talk about the tragic division in contemporary American Christianity is to say...

January 2020

January 10, 2020

Becoming God’s Breath

I had a powerful mystical encounter today while I was talking with a friend and...

January 06, 2020

Iran, Mike Pompeo, and the Total Depravity of The Other

[Mike Pompeo: U.S. Department of State, Public Domain] Donald Trump may not be an evangelical...

January 04, 2020

Ten Spiritual Lessons From A Decade of Failures

I first became a licensed local pastor in July 2010. Over the course of the...

December 2019

December 05, 2019

The Conservative Insight I Cannot Reject

We live in an age in which actual conservative principles have been buried by tribal...

January 2019

January 09, 2019

Why Does Holiness Matter?

Holiness is one of the most important and controversial aspects of John Wesley's 300 year...

December 2018

December 24, 2018

Jesus is God’s Rebellion Against Humanity

Jesus is God's rebellion against humanity. That statement is as offensive as the real Christmas...

May 2018

May 15, 2018

The Failure of Zion

The recent massacre of dozens of Gaza protesters by Israeli snipers is a tremendous tragedy,...

May 14, 2018

The Rich Variety of God’s Wisdom (Ephesians 3:10)

Today's daily office epistle reading is part of the beautifully mystical letter to the Ephesians....

April 2018

April 25, 2018

Is Hell the Reason to Love Jesus?

Tim Keller wrote two books Prodigal God and Generous Justice that really shaped me and which...

April 13, 2018

Control: The Greatest Temptation of Satan

One of my favorite songs by the dark industrial synthpop band VNV Nation is "Control"...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

Why you need to read Henri Nouwen

Every other summer, my family goes to visit my wife's cousin on his ranch in...

October 11, 2017

What religion does this meme represent?

So apparently this meme has been circulating some circles on the internet: stand for the...

August 2017

August 02, 2017

How do I preach the gospel at the #1 party school in the country?

It's official. The Princeton Review has declared Tulane University the #1 party school in the...

July 2017

July 23, 2017

When Jesus’ garden becomes a monoculture

I have been a gardener for many years. And I hate weeds. In Louisiana, the...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Five #AlternativeFacts of toxic Christianity

While government officials have always distorted truth, the Trump Administration is the first to openly...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

How Christians overcome the scandal of a baby God

God cannot be a baby. That's a scandal. Because babies are not omnipotent. They're not...

December 22, 2016

Rogue One and the kingdom of God (spoiler warning!)

Spoiler alert! Everybody dies in the end. It’s true about all forms of life in...