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September 2020

September 23, 2020

When God’s A Cop, Every Cop Is God

Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY, sent...

May 2019

May 08, 2019

Democratized Theology vs. Theology of the Demos (Mob)

I should have known that I was going to get snarky replies from conservative evangelicals...

May 04, 2019

Rachel Held Evans and the Democratization of Theology

I was motivated to start this blog after I discovered Rachel Held Evans in 2011...

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...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Can Wesleyanism Evolve Or Does It Belong To The 18th Century?

The continuous meta-debate within the United Methodist debate is to ask: what are we really...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

7 Ways I’m Not Entirely Progressive

I just got back from the Wild Goose Festival. It's a great experience every year,...

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...

September 2016

September 28, 2016

My favorite quotes from our Rob Bell interview

Rob Bell is on our podcast this week. I didn't get to participate because my...

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...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

The orthodoxy of the blues

The seventh chapter of my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us is about...

August 05, 2016

Wayne Grudem and the evangelical double-standard of sin

Donald Trump received a significant endorsement recently from Wayne Grudem, the man who wrote the...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Religion is the only hope for the American church

I just finished breakfast with a man who has been one of my most important...

November 2015

November 28, 2015

Can Christian theology promote terrorism?

We don't know exactly what motivated the white terrorist who attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic...

July 2014

July 05, 2014

#WildGoose14: where the Trinity was a dance party without inhibition

I've been meditating on two things that my brother Jonathan Martin said during our rave...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Is God’s love more holy than his holiness is loving?

It may seem like a nonsensical distinction but I think it makes all the difference...

April 2013

April 10, 2013

Why should I read DeLeuze?

I listen to a Christian hipster podcast called Homebrewed Christianity. They were recently part of...

April 06, 2013

Five C’s of Christian Mansplanation

I witnessed a conversation on facebook last night where one of these young, restless, well...

December 2012

December 23, 2012

Word, life, light: the eternal side of Christmas

I decided to do something different for my LifeSign sermon this weekend. Normally for Christmas,...