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June 2020

June 24, 2020

#AllLivesMatter: A Theology Of Generic Humanity

Why do white evangelicals like our vice president Mike Pence continue to feel the need...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

Rod Dreher, Karin McQuillan, and the Evaporation of White Taboo

For the past several decades, it has been taboo for white people to make disparaging...

August 2017

August 15, 2017

Charlottesville: a first-hand account of racist violence

[I asked my dear friend Deborah Porras to share her eyewitness account of what happened...

July 2017

July 24, 2017

Mixed race bathing in east Tennessee (a poem)

I've been to pools with black people before There were five maybe six not twenty...

June 2017

June 18, 2017

Why you should read my dad’s blog

I dedicated my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us to my dad because...

June 14, 2017

Resolutions Don’t Erase White Supremacy

It's a measure of how morally depraved the church has become that a Southern Baptist...

February 2017

February 14, 2017

The revolution will not be built on white shame

When I first entered the world of white radicalism in the early 2000's, I noticed...

January 2017

January 07, 2017

Hypersensitive college professor asks hypersensitive president-elect to protect him from his hypersensitive students

First Things senior editor and Emory English professor Mark Bauerlein is intimidated by his college...

December 2016

December 04, 2016

If you want to kill a black man with impunity

If you want to kill a black man with impunity… You don’t need a badge...

November 2016

November 15, 2016

A teachable moment for white United Methodist youth

When I was fifteen years old, I was a huge fan of Rush Limbaugh. I...

August 2016

August 10, 2016

When a well-intentioned white person exudes white supremacy

Well the Gospel Coalition is in trouble again. They wanted to participate in the race...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

Toxic authority, police brutality, and white evangelical Christianity

I have learned about three police killings of black people in the past 24 hours....

March 2016

March 30, 2016

What I would have to see from John Kasich to support him

Let’s say the unthinkable happens this July in Cleveland at the Republican National Convention and...

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 29, 2015

Racism doesn’t always look like rage; usually it looks like fear

Racism doesn't always look like rage; usually it looks like fear. I had a strange...

December 11, 2015

Why white Christians need to read Ta-nehisi Coates this Advent

Over the course of this fall, I have been working through Ta-nehisi Coates' book Between...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

An open letter to the white #Mizzou student who wrote the open letter to black student activists

Dear non-racist white college student from Missouri, I'm an anti-racist white campus minister who is...

November 11, 2015

The callousness of Erika Christakis’ #Yale intellectualism

In case you hadn't heard, Yale is going through some drama. A group of administrators...

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...

June 2015

June 14, 2015

Every white ally has a little bit of Rachel Dolezal

By now, just about everyone has heard of the white woman Rachel Dolezal who's been...

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...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

On self-serving appeals to God’s sovereign “natural” order

In response to the backlash against Barack Obama's Prayer Breakfast remarks about violence that had...

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...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Grace vs. niceness in interracial dialogue

I wanted to ponder the difference between grace and niceness in difficult online conversations, particularly...

August 14, 2014

Our gated communities and the black bogeyman that haunts us

I decided to take a picture of the most violent thing I've seen so far...

August 01, 2014

A song that shows how war can destroy your humanity

This video was recorded in Tel Aviv by Ha'aertz journalist Haim Har-Zahav. The lyrics of...

April 2014

April 28, 2014

Donald Sterling and the Tyranny of the Outrage Police

One of the best things that I've read about the drama surrounding cranky racist white...

April 26, 2014

“Color-blinded-ness” IS racism

There's been a lot of conversation about the Supreme Court ruling to end affirmative action...

April 24, 2014

Social holiness is about way more than sex

Fellow Methodist pastor Evan Rohrs-Dodge wrote a very legitimate post recently pointing out the distinction...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

Since you’ve all been waiting for my two cents on the #DuckDrama…

It was so great to fast from my blog over Advent. The only thing I...