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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...

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...

April 12, 2020

Two Poems About Easter

I. Bus Terminal There’s a feeling like we’re all Just sitting in a bus terminal...

February 2020

February 07, 2020

If Shakira’s Tongue Causes Your Eye To Sin, Cut Your Eyeball Out

I wasn't going to post anything about the Superbowl halftime show. But people kept talking...

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...

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...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

No, You Can’t Blame Pope Francis For This

[CN: church-based sexual trauma, some brief description] It's getting hard to keep quiet about the...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

Can Player Culture Get Canceled Forever?

In the 1999 film Magnolia, Tom Cruise plays professional misogynist self-help guru Frank "T.J." Mackie...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

November 2017

November 30, 2017

Sex As Grace (Reflecting On A Discussion With College Men)

"Togetherness in Bed," rt69, Flickr C.C. This week, I decided to go through former Archbishop...

April 2016

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...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

Can you party and still be a Christian?

It's Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, which can be an awkward time for a...

September 2015

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...

May 2015

May 14, 2015

Jesus’ holiness vs. our moralism (with Debra Hirsch)

I've been reading Debra Hirsch's Redeeming Sex as part of the Patheos Book Club for...

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 06, 2014

Media sensationalism and rape culture at my alma mater UVA (TW: rape culture)

It's been a hard couple of weeks to be a Wahoo in the wake of...

October 2014

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...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

“Against you alone have I sinned” (the solipsism of evangelical morality)

"Against you alone have I sinned." These words from Psalm 51:4 are attributed to the...

September 23, 2014

Cock-blocking and rape culture

It's one of those phrases you know not to use in mixed company. But there's...

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 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,...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

I could have been Elliot Rodger

I know you're not supposed to read the manifesto of a mass murderer, but that's...

April 2014

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...

March 2014

March 05, 2014

Wrestling with sex (#sermon #podcast)

This was the final sermon of our Wrestling series a couple of weekends ago. We...

November 2013

November 05, 2013

A litmus test of Christian morality: the film North Country

My wife and I wanted to watch a light film at home this past Saturday...

October 2013

October 02, 2013

The God who wants us to stay thirsty

Eros is an exasperatingly paradoxical kind of love. It is most fulfilled by being perpetually...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

C.S. Lewis talks about erotic love

This weekend, Burke United Methodist Church will continue in our sermon series on the four...

September 05, 2013

“Biblical” men don’t date? (A face-palmer from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood)

Normally I don't see much of a point in engaging fundamentalist Christian entities like the...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus, and the death of eros

No, Will Smith and his family weren't actually watching Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke grind...

August 12, 2013

Feminism, sex, and virtue in Margaret Farley’s Just Love

I have been reading Margaret Farley's Just Love: A Framework for Christian Ethics, the book...