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June 2018

June 01, 2018

Mommy-Shaming Ivanka Trump Doesn’t Make Immigrants Safe

Ivanka Trump posted this photo with her son on Twitter because she's a mom and...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Unerasing the Pueblo Crucificado

Today is Holy Saturday, the day Jesus spent in the grave. It's a day on...

March 30, 2018

Four Essential Both/Ands of Jesus’ Cross

Jesus' cross is hard to talk about. It's an impossibly awkward, illogical mystery. It's very...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

Why you need to read Henri Nouwen

Every other summer, my family goes to visit my wife's cousin on his ranch in...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Alcoholics need solidarity, not “education about the effects of alcohol”

My friend Canela Lopez recently co-authored an article in the Tulane Hullabaloo about the out-of-control...

August 2017

August 02, 2017

How do I preach the gospel at the #1 party school in the country?

It's official. The Princeton Review has declared Tulane University the #1 party school in the...

May 2017

May 01, 2017

Jesus is illegal

I'm going to be marching today with a group of immigrants whom some people call "illegal...

April 2017

April 20, 2017

Freedom, inspiration, and solidarity: how I understand Christian salvation today

I have spent most of my adult life trying to figure out how to talk...

April 14, 2017

Seven ways that Jesus died for our sins

Painting by Bec Cranford-Smith What does it mean that Jesus died for humanity’s sins? It’s...

March 2017

March 03, 2017

Detoxify Christianity: A FB Live Video Series for Lent

If you don't think there's anything toxic about American Christianity, then you can stop reading...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

How Christians overcome the scandal of a baby God

God cannot be a baby. That's a scandal. Because babies are not omnipotent. They're not...

July 2016

July 01, 2016

Is there a Christianity that isn’t toxic?

Have American Christians become what Jesus came to stop us from being? It’s not an...

April 2016

April 22, 2016

Responses to a thoughtful book critic

Edwin Tait is one of my most thoughtful internet conversation partners. We disagree on some...

April 15, 2016

The 12 scriptures that inspired my book

When I was a Southern Baptist, we used to believe that Methodists didn't read the...

April 06, 2016

Queerness, the idolatry of norms, and the “new” morality

I wish that United Theological Seminary president David Watson could have been at lunch with...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and white evangelical nihilism

It's going to be hard to write this without it coming across as trolling, but...

January 11, 2016

Can American Christianity be detoxified? (A summary of my first book)

Have we become what Jesus came to stop us from being? Many evangelical Christians in...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Jesus would have met with Kim Davis and Gene Robinson

Nothing makes Jesus facepalm more than the stupid oversimplifications of our culture war. Apparently, some...

September 25, 2015

How Pope Francis completely redefined the Golden Rule

The Golden Rule is one of the most familiar Christian teachings. Supposedly there's a version...

December 2013

December 25, 2013

Solidarity: the meaning of Christmas

Emmanuel. God with us. That is the meaning of Christmas. Jesus was born to show...

August 2013

August 04, 2013

Five verses God has tattooed on my heart: #2 Matthew 9:13

I've often told the story of how I discovered the verse that became the basis...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

Exclusively for the excluded

I recently read a post by fellow Methodist blogger Talbot Davis critiquing the pursuit of...

July 08, 2013

Why you have to be poor to treat people like Jesus did

The title is everything if you want a well-trafficked blog post. Now my task is...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

752 and the messianic longing of Scandal

Since my wife is addicted to Scandal, I watched it with her last night while...

February 2013

February 12, 2013

Ugliness Into Beauty: Six Blessings of the Cross

The LifeSign alternative worship service at Burke United Methodist Church is doing a sermon series...

December 2012

December 29, 2012

Javert vs. Valjean: the two Christianities of Les Miserables

***Spoiler alert: this post presumes that you know the storyline of Les Miz.*** After watching...

December 19, 2012

Why should the wicked fear God's mercy?

Psalm 52:3 blew my mind yesterday as I was reading it in the Chapel of...

October 2012

October 02, 2012

Ministry with the poor and middle-class self-hate

My name is Morgan Guyton and I'm a recovering middle-class self-hater. I also love hanging...

August 2011

August 03, 2011

Where I agree with Mark Driscoll: Judgment As Solidarity

I was originally thinking about going after Mark Driscoll's complementarianism by comparing him with Juan...