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September 2020

September 30, 2020

Donald Trump And The Exorcism Of White America

Trump and his supporters believe that he is a scapegoat. In their understanding of what...

June 2020

June 07, 2020

On Learning How To Be Compost

Friday night, I was antsy because I hadn't yet been to a protest of the...

February 2020

February 08, 2020

Coronavirus, Saturday Night Live, And White Hysteria

Last weekend I was very uncomfortable during a Saturday Night Live sketch in which the...

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...

January 2019

January 08, 2019

Theology That Builds Walls

Donald Trump would not be fixated on building a wall on the southern border of...

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...

October 16, 2018

An Open Letter To the So-Called Exhausted Majority

First, I'm not sure whether you actually exist. You may be the invention of the...

October 01, 2018

The World of the Crucified vs. The World of the #Blessed

Most of the people who read this blog post live in what we could call...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

Austin Channing Brown: Black Dignity In White Space

If there’s one book your church small group needs to order for this fall, it’s...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

Rod Dreher, Karin McQuillan, and the Evaporation of White Taboo

For the past several decades, it has been taboo for white people to make disparaging...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

Grace, Truth, and Eucharist in an Age of Disposable People

I was originally going to write something about Roy Moore and the 81% of white...

November 2017

November 01, 2017

Is it okay to be white?

Apparently there is a national movement started by white nationalists in the netherworld of 4chan...

September 2017

September 06, 2017

#DACA and the Failure of Atonement in the American Church

Once again, I feel demoralized by the cynicism and intransigence in our nation's immigration policy.

August 2017

August 26, 2017

The Theology That Pardons White Supremacy

Last night I witnessed a white United Methodist pastor seeking to justify Donald Trump's pardon...

August 17, 2017

The week I stopped hating white evangelical men

[Content Note: childhood sexual trauma] Sometimes my personal life is out of step with the...

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...

August 11, 2017

The spiritual discipline of backing down

As I write this, the world has been taken hostage by a high-stakes game of...

July 2017

July 24, 2017

Mixed race bathing in east Tennessee (a poem)

I've been to pools with black people before There were five maybe six not twenty...

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,...

July 03, 2017

When God Won’t Let Me Go Off On The Evangelicals

I was planning to go off on the evangelicals in this blog post. After First...

May 2017

May 05, 2017

Why white people should stop celebrating Cinco de Mayo

One of the most transformative moments of my life happened in Mexico. My friend Kevin...

May 01, 2017

Jesus is illegal

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

February 2017

February 14, 2017

The revolution will not be built on white shame

When I first entered the world of white radicalism in the early 2000's, I noticed...

January 2017

January 07, 2017

Hypersensitive college professor asks hypersensitive president-elect to protect him from his hypersensitive students

First Things senior editor and Emory English professor Mark Bauerlein is intimidated by his college...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

Intersectionality for bewildered white evangelicals

In the Washington Post this week, white evangelical millennial leader Katelyn Beaty said, "I can’t...

November 10, 2016

Why it’s not time to ask people of color to be hopeful and pray for unity

All of us are trying to figure out what to say, and many of us...

November 09, 2016

Love wins (still)

Last night, after our Election Day Communion service, I walked over to the Audubon Park...

November 08, 2016

Will white evangelical women change our political landscape today?

It's no secret that I've been a bit of a mess this election season. I've...

November 03, 2016

If Donald Trump wins, I will blame toxic Christianity and here’s why

There are many different factors at play in the rise of Donald Trump. His popularity...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Why Standing Rock is incomprehensible to most white people

I've had an image haunting my mind for the past several months. At a progressive...