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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 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 20, 2016

The problem with the golden calf story

I noticed a problem in the Bible that I'd never noticed before in church last week....

September 18, 2016

My seven salvations so far

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

September 07, 2016

Toxic Christianity encapsulated in a church sign

This church sign captures everything that is wrong with toxic Christianity and why it positions...

September 03, 2016

When the kingdom of God disrupts my church marketing

Everyone is always marketing. I suspect there were hundreds of college classrooms that began their...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

Is Jesus the only way to God?

This week's Crackers and Grape Juice episode addressed the question "Is Jesus the only way...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

The river is good to me and so is God

For two decades, the Eno River in Durham, NC, has been an important temple for...

June 09, 2016

Where the victory happens

There's a tendency in our world today to live as though the only events that...

April 2016

April 20, 2016

No, heaven and hell are not about afterlife insurance

I was handed a tract last night on Tulane's campus that gave me the answer...

April 15, 2016

The 12 scriptures that inspired my book

When I was a Southern Baptist, we used to believe that Methodists didn't read the...

February 2016

February 07, 2016

Mardi Gras, Psalm 150, and the search for an authentic hallelujah

Hallelujah. I've been suspicious of that word my whole life. It means "Praise the Lord!"...

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....

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Why don’t we call God “they” instead of “he”?

For Christmas this year, I got Andrei Rublev's Trinity icon. It is the most beautiful...

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...

January 07, 2016

Do #BlackLivesMatter to white evangelical students and alumni of @WheatonCollege?

This week, Dr. Larycia Hawkins received notice from the Wheaton College administration that termination proceedings...

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 16, 2015

Do Christians worship the same God as Muslims?

Wheaton College has suspended its political science professor Larycia Hawkins for saying that Christians "worship...

December 03, 2015

Is God’s sovereignty threatened by the regulation of guns or pollution?

"God isn't fixing this," says the front page of the New York Daily News about...

November 2015

November 07, 2015

Rene Girard, God’s wrath, and Jesus’ cross

In 2001, my spiritual mentor Bob Holum gave me a book that completely changed everything...

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...

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...

June 10, 2015

“What if we were free to fail our way forward?”

I'm at the Louisiana annual conference where Dr. Elaine Heath is one of our guest...

June 06, 2015

Worship and justice in the feast of first fruits (Deuteronomy 26)

Yesterday's lectionary reading included a passage from Deuteronomy 26 that gives instructions on what the...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

How a core evangelical doctrine became my gateway heresy

The other week, a friend playfully tweeted out a warning not to mess around with...

May 01, 2015

Why white Christians need to listen to Amos and Isaiah

"But let justice roll down like waters; and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Amos 5:24...

April 2015

April 26, 2015

Six ways I will never stop being evangelical

The Christian blogosphere seems to viralize two things: 1) numbered lists (five reasons why this,...

April 21, 2015

Love and the day of judgment (1 John 4:17)

1 John 4 is one of the most comforting and life-giving chapters of the whole...

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...

February 2015

February 13, 2015

Can Christianity be sex-positive? A chat with Dianna Anderson

Dianna Anderson is a twitter friend and conversation partner who is part of our growing tribe...