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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...

October 17, 2016

What if God wants the pro-life movement to lose the Supreme Court forever so they can act like Christians again?

[Note: A previous version of this post had a featured photo with an image that...

September 2016

September 07, 2016

Toxic Christianity encapsulated in a church sign

This church sign captures everything that is wrong with toxic Christianity and why it positions...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

Donald Trump and evangelical law and order

Law and order. A three word phrase Donald Trump used dozens of times in his...

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 15, 2016

Has culture war killed white Christian America?

A new book is getting buzz all over social media this week: Robert Jones's The End...

July 14, 2016

Sandra Bland, Franklin Graham, and white male Christian authority

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland, a black woman who died...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

Achievement is the greatest poison

I'm addicted to achievement. The dopamine in my brain rises and falls every day in...

April 08, 2016

Four reasons I cannot trust my own writing

One of the hardest things I've had to learn as a writer is that I'm...

February 2016

February 01, 2016

Why I’m not really invested in what happens in Iowa today

I remember when I thought Barack Obama was going to save our country. Back in...

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 18, 2016

MLK and the peace that isn’t peace

In church yesterday, our community prayer included several quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr....

January 07, 2016

Do #BlackLivesMatter to white evangelical students and alumni of @WheatonCollege?

This week, Dr. Larycia Hawkins received notice from the Wheaton College administration that termination proceedings...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

10 posts I wish more people had seen this year

Since everyone is doing their end-of-year top 10 posts, I figured I would do the...

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...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

The authority of the badge vs. the authority of the cross

Obedience and authority. The two favorite words of white conservative evangelical Christianity. They are at...

June 2015

June 24, 2015

Four covertly white supremacist concepts we should reconsider

White supremacy. It's not just terrorists in white hoods who burn crosses and lynch black...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

Brian Williams: a Sunday school conversation

We talked about Brian Williams in Sunday school yesterday. I can't remember exactly what the...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Grace vs. niceness in interracial dialogue

I wanted to ponder the difference between grace and niceness in difficult online conversations, particularly...

August 14, 2014

Our gated communities and the black bogeyman that haunts us

I decided to take a picture of the most violent thing I've seen so far...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

“Color-blinded-ness” IS racism

There's been a lot of conversation about the Supreme Court ruling to end affirmative action...

January 2014

January 20, 2014

Salvation from “whiteness”: a subversive reading of Job

For Martin Luther King Day, I wanted to consider a very challenging quote from black...

December 2013

December 01, 2013

What legacy have we inherited? Reflections on “12 Years A Slave.”

My wife and I watched "12 Years A Slave" this weekend. Needless to say, it...

July 2013

July 28, 2013

Should allies “stay angry”? Putting @RachelHeldEvans in conversation with the Blerd Theologian @rtrdh

Should Christians "stay angry" at the injustice in our world? That's a question raised in...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Privilege and Biblical interpretation

This is a post where I'm raising a question that I flat-out don't know the...