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April 2021

April 15, 2021

My Messiah

My messiah is exactly the kind of man you’d expect without a human Y chromosome:...

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...

June 2020

June 18, 2020

Why Kevin DeYoung’s “Culture War Strategy” Fails

The Gospel Coalition published an article by Kevin DeYoung decrying the Supreme Court decision that...

June 03, 2020

Why True Christianity Is Anarchist

I wanted to take a few moments to talk about anarchism since Donald Trump has...

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...

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 29, 2020

This Is My Body (A Poem About Having A Queer Christian Body)

Jesus is teaching me how to live In a body that is always dying And...

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 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...

April 12, 2020

Two Poems About Easter

I. Bus Terminal There’s a feeling like we’re all Just sitting in a bus terminal...

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...

April 10, 2020

Spikenard (A Poem About Impulsive Love)

She was not manic This time but perfectly Lucid and yet burning With the heart...

April 06, 2020

Whip Of Cords (A Poem About Divine Rage)

When Jesus sat Twisting his whip of cords Together, how hard Did he bite down...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

The Battle For Eucharist

There was a scandal in early Methodism about Eucharist at some point. I don't have...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

Can You Handle This Mardi Gras Unicorn?

Morgan the unicorn: The book My mother read to me Before anything happened. Are unicorns...

February 07, 2020

If Shakira’s Tongue Causes Your Eye To Sin, Cut Your Eyeball Out

I wasn't going to post anything about the Superbowl halftime show. But people kept talking...

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 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...

August 2019

August 14, 2019

Eight Fragmented Thoughts On #ResurrectionGate

For those of you who weren't following progressive Christian twitter a few days ago, there...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

Can “Social Justice” Christianity Be Anti-Gay?

This past Friday, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that inaugurated the gay...

June 22, 2019

“Sugary Preaching Leads to Truth Decay”

Our Virginia annual conference happened in Roanoke this year. As I drove from my parents'...

May 2019

May 21, 2019

Why I Stan For Bran the Disabled King in #GameOfThrones

This is probably one of those awkward dad moments when I misuse a term like...

April 2019

April 21, 2019

Privilege and Resurrection: A Response to Serene Jones

On this Holy Saturday, the New York Times published an interview with Serene Jones, the...

April 19, 2019

Five Things to Get Right About Jesus’ Cross

I decided to get back on the blog for Good Friday since I've been thinking...

January 2019

January 08, 2019

Theology That Builds Walls

Donald Trump would not be fixated on building a wall on the southern border of...

January 02, 2019

Jerry Falwell Jr. Unveils the Anti-Christ

No, I'm not going to say Donald Trump is the anti-Christ. Because I don't believe...

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...