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January 2020

January 24, 2020

Sin and the Rules of the Market

A couple of weeks ago, a Calvinist bro on Twitter was talking about how liberation...

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...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

Can ICE and Immigrants Worship Together?

Yesterday my friend and mentor Brian Zahnd got a lot of flak for tweeting about...

July 2017

July 09, 2017

Five twitter theology feeds: the gospel, hyervigilant moralism, law and order, God’s glory, Good Samaritan

I've been traveling for the past week so I've only had internet access on my...

July 04, 2017

The Selective Inerrancy of Romans 13 for American Patriots

The signers of the Declaration of Independence were not biblical inerrantists. If they had been,...

January 2017

January 04, 2017

How did defenders of absolute truth become post-truth ideologues?

A crucial part of my conservative evangelical upbringing was learning about the difference between “absolute...

November 2016

November 23, 2016

Disciplined disobedience in a world of undisciplined obedience

What does it mean to obey God? For many Christians, the answer is simple: read...

July 2016

July 17, 2016

Is the Holy Spirit a respecter of institutions?

Some United Methodists are overjoyed about the election of Karen Oliveto, our first openly queer...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

The one verse the church should have been reading for the past 2000 years

Order. That’s not what it’s about. It’s about Pentecost, the infinite harmony of the...

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...

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...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

The authority of the badge vs. the authority of the cross

Obedience and authority. The two favorite words of white conservative evangelical Christianity. They are at...

September 2015

September 11, 2015

An Honest Question for Christians Who Say They “Obey” the Bible

I wanted to ask an honest question. It's partly a loaded question, but partly a...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

Breaking a child’s will: the idolatry of obedience

I read a really chilling blog post on Homeschooler's Anonymous about a disciplinary practice in...

March 2014

March 04, 2014

What is Biblical obedience? Abraham, Huck Finn, and Adolf Eichmann

There's a movement within United Methodism called "Biblical Obedience" whose name itself is offensive to...

February 2014

February 22, 2014

Three highly ignored teachings of the New Testament: Sabbath healings, circumcision, and unclean food

One of the main reasons that many Christians fall short who are earnestly seeking to...

February 03, 2014

“I used to be exactly like you before I got saved”

There are two obnoxious tendencies that many people seem to fall into quite naturally. The...

August 2013

August 01, 2013

Is it good evangelism to ridicule “millennial” spiritual seekers?

David Koyzis's recent First Things article, "Millennial Religion and the Sovereign Self," disses the way...

May 2013

May 03, 2013

Why I would fail Michael and Debi Pearl’s parenting class

I read a very disturbing post on Patheos by a woman named Libby Anne who...

October 2012

October 15, 2012

Wisdom from Henri de Lubac, part 2

I have been reading off and on through Catholic theologian Henri de Lubac's Paradoxes of...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Did Paul obey his General Conference?

If Peter was the first Pope, then Paul was the first Protestant. In the original...