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May 2020

May 26, 2020

Satan As The Virus of Enmity

Satan is a virus. Forgive me if it sounds facetious or opportunistic for me to...

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 18, 2020

Spiritual Memoir (A Poem About My Life)

In my spiritual memoir, Satan will never have A speaking part because it’s Satan who...

September 2018

September 15, 2018

Satan and the Scandals of the Church

Pope Francis is my problematic fave. I'm sure he's exhibited plenty of personal moral failures...

April 2018

April 13, 2018

Control: The Greatest Temptation of Satan

One of my favorite songs by the dark industrial synthpop band VNV Nation is "Control"...

August 2017

August 12, 2017

How Satan Wins in Charlottesville and Elsewhere

Last night, a group of white nationalists carrying tiki torches took over the UVA Lawn...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Resisting Satan in an age without integrity

My wife Cheryl has integrity. I often make fun of her for it. When she's...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

What if God wants the pro-life movement to lose the Supreme Court forever so they can act like Christians again?

[Note: A previous version of this post had a featured photo with an image that...

September 2016

September 07, 2016

Toxic Christianity encapsulated in a church sign

This church sign captures everything that is wrong with toxic Christianity and why it positions...

September 06, 2016

Satan, Beyonce, and Jesus the Problematic Fave

This week on Crackers and Grape Juice, I talked with one of my favorite people...

August 2016

August 03, 2016

What if it were safe to be wrong?

Our political discourse has become entirely satanic. I mean that in a very specific way....

November 2015

November 14, 2015

Resisting the Great Terrorist

The word devil is a bastardization of the Greek word diabolos, which is a compound...

January 2015

January 24, 2015

Radical Jesus 101: Is humanity good or evil?

Is humanity good or evil? Some conservative evangelicals would say that the answer to this...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

Did God or Satan tell David to take a census? Progressive revelation & Derek Flood’s Disarming Scripture

If God tells you to sin, is it still a sin? What if God tells...

August 2014

August 05, 2014

Daddy, is the devil real?

My sons wanted to tell spooky stories last night. Isaiah went first, then Matthew, then...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

The only two sides of any human conflict for Christians who love their enemies

We live in a world that loves to draw lines between "us" and "them." This...

July 13, 2014

How does God “condemn sin in the flesh” on Jesus’ cross? (Romans 8:3)

In this week's lectionary epistle reading, Paul writes that "by sending his own Son in...

July 13, 2014

Exit-trolling: the new tactic in Facebook psychological warfare

I remember a few years ago when Facebook was young, people used to play a...

October 2013

October 22, 2013

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and John MacArthur’s #StrangeFire Conference

Maybe you haven't heard of John MacArthur. He hosted a conference recently called Strange Fire...

June 2013

June 11, 2013

Eternal life is innocence restored (Journey to Eternity #1)

There has been so much extra-Biblical speculation about the implications of the Garden of Eden...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

Danceable Homiletics #3: The Sting (featuring Greg Boyd)

On June 18, 2007, I made a track that I originally called "Ignore me; I'm...

November 2012

November 21, 2012

Can Israel love its enemies in Gaza and keep its people safe?

I realize I've had blogorrhea lately about the Gaza crisis. This is probably my last...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Accusers vs. advocates: the real sides in the culture war

One of my favorite pastors Jonathan Martin of Renovatus Church in Charlotte, NC recently preached...

February 2012

February 12, 2012

Deliver us from evil

Sermon preached 2/11-12/2012 at Burke UMC Text: Matthew 4:1-11 “Lead us not into temptation, but...

July 2011

July 20, 2011

An Answer for the Taunting: Monster-Psalm Meditation #6

Psalm 119:41-48 Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord, your salvation according to...

May 2011

May 16, 2011

A New Song

Sermon for 1/15-16/2011 Text: Psalm 40:1-11 We live in a world of competing narratives. Nothing...