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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:...

May 2020

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

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...

March 2020

March 27, 2020

Please Donate To Support Ugandan LGBTI Community!

Dear blog followers, I received the following emergency appeal from the director of the Universal...

February 2020

February 23, 2020

The Hidden Family (A Poem)

I don’t know how atypical we are, But I do know that we’re not from...

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...

February 2019

February 26, 2019

Practical Holiness Is Wesleyan Orthodoxy

I just spent a three-day Cursillo retreat with mostly older, conservative small-town United Methodists in...

February 05, 2019

Two Visions And A Council For Our Discernment

"Saul, why do you persecute me?" "What God has made clean, you must not call...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

The Evangelism of a Thousand Clergy Trials

I denied Christ, just like Simon Peter when the cock crowed. It was a couple...

November 2018

November 20, 2018

A Love Letter to Ex-Evangelical Twitter

I debated whether to call this a love letter or an open letter. Love letter...

June 2018

June 16, 2018

What Does Church Unity Look Like?

I'm currently at the Virginia annual conference, the yearly gathering where United Methodist laity and...

April 2018

April 12, 2018

Why I’m Not Freaking Out About the Methodist Apocalypse

In 2019, United Methodism will experience an apocalypse. Representatives from all over the world will...

January 2018

January 27, 2018

Queer Women Have Always Been My Best Pastors

It's taken me some time to respond to the latest attack on women in the...

October 2017

October 17, 2017

How Badly Have Traditional Christian Sexual Ethics Failed?

I was molested at an overnight lock-in for my church basketball team by the most...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

The Christians United Statement In Support of LGBT Inclusion

Post-evangelical social media got fired up yesterday after the release of an anti-queer statement from the...

July 2017

July 13, 2017

The 7 Best #GospelBro Retorts to #EugenePeterson

I don't have time to write a real blog post since I'm leaving for Wild...

June 2017

June 12, 2017

When Bishop Harvey flipped the script on bold imagination

The book of Numbers was the source text of the message this year at Louisiana's United...

November 2016

November 02, 2016

Hats off to the Hatmakers for taking up their cross

Jen Hatmaker is a tremendously popular author among evangelical Christian women. She and her husband...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

Which Holy Spirit will show up to the United Methodist commission?

I wish I could have been at the Wesleyan Covenant Association gathering in Chicago earlier...

October 07, 2016

Let’s start an inclusive evangelical campus ministry network!

Time just ran an article about InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's witch-hunt against LGBTQ-affirming staff-people. Not staff-people...

September 2016

September 12, 2016

An open letter with 12 honest questions for the Wesleyan Covenant Association

Dear Wesleyan Covenantal Association, First of all, I'm not afraid of you. I don't think...

September 04, 2016

Do you want to see inclusive campus ministry thrive?

The hopes and prayers from the past few months of planning and preparation have come...

August 2016

August 14, 2016

It’s time to put the knife down

At our joint book event this weekend, Liz Edman read a passage from her book...

August 13, 2016

My conversation with Queer Virtue’s Liz Edman

Today was the big day. I got to have a public conversation with Liz Edman,...

August 08, 2016

Liz Edman: queer pride vs. Christian empire

This June, I had one of the most epic conversations of my life in a...

July 2016

July 20, 2016

So your local church can’t do ministry because there’s a gay bishop out there?

Good News magazine recently published an open letter to the United Methodist Council of Bishops...

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...

July 16, 2016

Could a queer bishop restore Wesleyan holiness to the United Methodist Church?

Last night, the Western Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church elected our first openly-queer bishop,...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

Can queer pride save the American church?

This past Friday, as the financial world was reeling in the wake of the Brexit...

June 24, 2016

My most contentious chapter: outsiders not insiders

Several recent reviews have expressed ambivalence about my book, particularly the 10th chapter Outsiders Not...