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May 2016

May 10, 2016

Can traditional sexuality exist without social control?

With the rise of Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate, many conservative evangelical leaders...

May 07, 2016

A prophecy and two visions from Acts for our United Methodist General Conference

The book of Acts is supposed to model for us how the early church engaged...

May 06, 2016

What Romans 1 teaches about sin and why it ironically exonerates LGBT identity

Romans 1:18-32 is one of the most important passages in scripture, because it describes the...

May 05, 2016

No, you’re not toxic just because you’re conservative

I was going to write a nanny-nanny boo-boo post about Donald Trump becoming the Republican...

May 03, 2016

Now even “Jesus loves me” has been weaponized

The culture wars have reached a new low. At a Horry County school board meeting...

May 02, 2016

On making Jesus answer questions he wasn’t asked

Conservative United Methodist scholar Ben Witherington's recent rant in the United Methodist Clergy group was...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Is punishment the primary vocation of a bishop?

Drew McIntyre is not a bad person. I got to know him on a mission...

April 28, 2016

Should the United Methodist Church be more like McDonald’s?

Last night, I went to a screening of the film "Act of Love" about the trial of...

April 23, 2016

Is transgender bathroom panic the gay marriage of the 2016 election season?

In 2004, many political analysts concluded that the threat of gay marriage was the hot-button...

April 14, 2016

That time the apostle Paul actually gave direct instructions about sex

I've been having the usual never-ending social media conversation about sexuality, so I thought it...

April 06, 2016

Queerness, the idolatry of norms, and the “new” morality

I wish that United Theological Seminary president David Watson could have been at lunch with...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

10 posts I wish more people had seen this year

Since everyone is doing their end-of-year top 10 posts, I figured I would do the...

November 2015

November 06, 2015

When pastors bear false witness against transgender people

The word "Satan" in Hebrew means "the accuser." When we stir up drama against other...

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 30, 2015

Jesus would have met with Kim Davis and Gene Robinson

Nothing makes Jesus facepalm more than the stupid oversimplifications of our culture war. Apparently, some...

September 22, 2015

What will happen if Pope Francis gets a selfie with the gays?

The latest drama manufactured by the culture war industrial complex is a tiff over the...

September 09, 2015

#BecauseImAChristian (Not #ImAChristianBut)

A couple days ago, the twitter hashtag #ImAChristianBut was trending. I knew immediately that it...

September 04, 2015

The squandered witness of anti-gay “martyrdom” in an age of dehumanizing sex

I'm not going to call Kim Davis a bigot. I don't think she's a malicious...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

Six scriptures I would use to address Kevin DeYoung’s 40 questions for rainbow flag-waving Christians

Kevin DeYoung’s 40 questions for rainbow-flag waving Christians has been making rounds across the internet...

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...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Original sin and the identity of the other (questioning an apparent collision of values)

At a campus ministry conference I've been attending, a conservative evangelical speaker talked about the...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Two offensive analogies in the gay marriage debate from David Gushee and Andrew Wilson

During the past couple of weeks, two arguments have surfaced on opposite sides of the...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Where I’m actually coming from as a progressive evangelical

One of my most valuable conversation partners on the Internet is a conservative Calvinist campus...

October 16, 2014

When cis-het men play God: evangelical transphobia and the idolatry of gender

Last week, Russell Moore wrote a column for The Gospel Coalition called "Joan or John?"...

October 13, 2014

Is God arbitrary? (my point of contention with conservative evangelicals)

Is there anything that God asks us to do for no other reason than because...

August 2014

August 08, 2014

What if instead of attacking gay people, evangelicals supported celibate monasticism?

The latest thing conservative evangelicals on social media are getting excited about and sharing around...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

The two women who got me to carry the rainbow flag

Despite the fact that I've been pretty vocal on my blog about LGBT issues, I...

June 22, 2014

#VAUMC14: We voted for real conversation about sexuality; that means the onus is on us to have it!

Yesterday, my colleague Tom Berlin put forward a motion to postpone the resolution that had...

June 21, 2014

The Virginia Conference talks about sexuality

Like many annual conferences of the United Methodist Church, the Virginia Conference is considering a...

June 12, 2014

What does a safe and fruitful church conversation about sexuality look like?

The Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church will be meeting next weekend in Hampton,...