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June 2020

June 24, 2020

#AllLivesMatter: A Theology Of Generic Humanity

Why do white evangelicals like our vice president Mike Pence continue to feel the need...

June 05, 2020

The Serpent’s Fruit (In Poetic Form)

He understood clearly That all he had to do Was hold the Bible Courageously for...

June 04, 2020

The Fruit The Serpent Holds

I was proud of our former president George W. Bush this week. He said the...

June 01, 2020

Dehumanization Is The Real Enemy

We are living in demonic times. Whatever you believe about Satan, I use the word...

January 2020

January 06, 2020

Iran, Mike Pompeo, and the Total Depravity of The Other

[Mike Pompeo: U.S. Department of State, Public Domain] Donald Trump may not be an evangelical...

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...

June 2018

June 19, 2018

How Should White People Handle White Tears?

White feelings can be dangerous for people of color. When a white police officer feels...

February 2018

February 13, 2018

Hoda Katebi: What Speaking the Truth in Love Looks Like

If you have not yet seen the interview with Iranian-American blogger Hoda Katebi on Chicago's...

August 2017

August 15, 2017

Charlottesville: a first-hand account of racist violence

[I asked my dear friend Deborah Porras to share her eyewitness account of what happened...

August 13, 2017

What If This Is the New Church?

I've been thinking about what I would preach today if I were preaching. And I...

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...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

The fascinating intersectionality of the word “cuck”

One of the most bizarre phenomena of the Trump era is the reintroduction of a...

June 14, 2017

Resolutions Don’t Erase White Supremacy

It's a measure of how morally depraved the church has become that a Southern Baptist...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

The spirit of power, love, and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7)

On Tuesday, the daily office lectionary included this verse from 2 Timothy 1:7: "God did...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

Jesus doesn’t do walls (Ephesians 2:14)

If you want to get to the core ethos of true Christianity, Ephesians 2:14 is...

January 14, 2017

Milo Yiannopoulos and misguided leftist censorship

Milo Yiannopoulos is a despicable person. In addition to his racist alt-right views, his entire platform is...

December 2016

December 04, 2016

If you want to kill a black man with impunity

If you want to kill a black man with impunity… You don’t need a badge...

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 15, 2016

A teachable moment for white United Methodist youth

When I was fifteen years old, I was a huge fan of Rush Limbaugh. I...

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...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Are people of color protecting our country from fascism?

It's been over a week since this astonishing contrast of maps made the rounds on...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

My seven salvations so far

There is nothing more anxiety-inducing about growing up Southern Baptist than the obsession with having...

August 2016

August 10, 2016

When a well-intentioned white person exudes white supremacy

Well the Gospel Coalition is in trouble again. They wanted to participate in the race...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Six things that make white Christian America toxic

Since it's Donald Trump's big week and he's an excellent bellwether of the toxicity of...

July 07, 2016

Toxic authority, police brutality, and white evangelical Christianity

I have learned about three police killings of black people in the past 24 hours....

April 2016

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...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Racism doesn’t always look like rage; usually it looks like fear

Racism doesn't always look like rage; usually it looks like fear. I had a strange...

December 11, 2015

Why white Christians need to read Ta-nehisi Coates this Advent

Over the course of this fall, I have been working through Ta-nehisi Coates' book Between...

November 2015

November 01, 2015

Seven points of contention in today’s reformation

So it's that time of year known as Reformation Sunday when we remember the anniversary...