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April 2021

April 15, 2021

My Messiah

My messiah is exactly the kind of man you’d expect without a human Y chromosome:...

May 2020

May 02, 2020

Can We Have a Queer, Erotic God?

One of my more mischievous hobbies during the pandemic over the past few days has...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

August 2017

August 08, 2017

Is it un-Christ-like to drag a famous theologian online?

I got in trouble this weekend for a Facebook post in which I expressed regret...

August 04, 2017

Why Is NT Wright Calling Transgender People Gnostics?

The Gnostics would be puzzled by Wright's attribution of their philosophy to transgender people.

May 2016

May 16, 2016

The one verse the church should have been reading for the past 2000 years

Order. That’s not what it’s about. It’s about Pentecost, the infinite harmony of the...

May 03, 2016

Now even “Jesus loves me” has been weaponized

The culture wars have reached a new low. At a Horry County school board meeting...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

Is transgender bathroom panic the gay marriage of the 2016 election season?

In 2004, many political analysts concluded that the threat of gay marriage was the hot-button...

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...

June 2015

June 03, 2015

What Russell Moore gets right about transgender and intersex identity

Predictably, there have been a lot of ignorant Christian responses to Caitlyn Jenner's coming out....

November 2014

November 22, 2014

Transphobia’s newest target: Winnie the Pooh

The transphobic Polish town council of Tuszyn has banished Winnie the Pooh from being a...

October 2014

October 16, 2014

When cis-het men play God: evangelical transphobia and the idolatry of gender

Last week, Russell Moore wrote a column for The Gospel Coalition called "Joan or John?"...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Can God make people who don’t fit our boxes? (The #transgender question)

When I was in my early twenties, I went through a David Bowie phase. I...

May 2012

May 21, 2012

Why does God make eunuchs? (Matthew 19:12)

As I was standing in the checkout line at the grocery store this week, I...