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Lent Never Stopped
Lent never stopped because no one was raised from the dead and we didn’t make...
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Intuition and the Garden of Eden
I’ve spent much of the pandemic contemplating the meaning of the biblical Garden of Eden...
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The Continuous Gaslighting Of An Autistic Mind
I'm needing to get out some feelings and thoughts about my experience as an autistic....
January 11, 2022
Why I Still Call Myself A Christian
I continue to call myself a Christian for two reasons: 1) because my mother is...
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We could be called The Fools, because we speak with the freedom of those who...
December 2021
December 06, 2021
Why Does The Knowledge of Good And Evil Make Humanity Fall?
Very few interpreters of the Garden of Eden story in Genesis 3 pay any attention...
December 05, 2021
On Getting Banned From A White Queer Christian Discord For Attacking Augustine
Well I just got banned from a white queer Christian discord space for attacking Augustine's...
December 03, 2021
On Being A Christian Pagan Mystic
When I was in my early twenties, I called myself a Christian pagan, a memory...
September 2021
September 08, 2021
Why I Am Probably Leaving United Methodism
[Update: Read the first comment. I think it gets at the heart of what I've...
July 2021
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[Trigger Warning: Coarse, Erotic Language About God] I want to propose a vocation for white...
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My Messiah
My messiah is exactly the kind of man you’d expect without a human Y chromosome:...
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Donald Trump And The Exorcism Of White America
Trump and his supporters believe that he is a scapegoat. In their understanding of what...
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When God’s A Cop, Every Cop Is God
Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in Louisville, KY, sent...
August 2020
August 10, 2020
The Clown (A Poem About God)
God, are you such a clown That you’re also the snake We have always feared...
August 03, 2020
Impulse + Contact (A Poem About Divine Encounter)
This is a spoken word poem I made that was inspired by mystical encounters with...
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July 16, 2020
My Best Teachers Are People I Cannot Win
I want to win everyone. I suppose it's a fairly common problem among pastors. But...
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I keep on thinking that I’m “over” what happened to me. At a shamanic retreat...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez summarized one of my core religious convictions in a speech given on February...
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[This is a guest-post from my father John Guyton who's interested in the parallel between...
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#AllLivesMatter: A Theology Of Generic Humanity
Why do white evangelicals like our vice president Mike Pence continue to feel the need...
June 18, 2020
Why Kevin DeYoung’s “Culture War Strategy” Fails
The Gospel Coalition published an article by Kevin DeYoung decrying the Supreme Court decision that...
June 08, 2020
Do We Need Cops?
I need to confess something that will make me look unwoke. I was a bit...
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On Learning How To Be Compost
Friday night, I was antsy because I hadn't yet been to a protest of the...
June 06, 2020
Thugs (A Poem About Men In Uniform Who Shove The Elderly)
They’re doing what They’re supposed to do; The Bible even says that The role of...
June 05, 2020
I Want You To Get It
I don’t want you To be canceled; I want you to get it. And nobody...
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 03, 2020
Why True Christianity Is Anarchist
I wanted to take a few moments to talk about anarchism since Donald Trump has...
June 02, 2020
The Last Battle (A Poem About Narnia)
We were trapped in A stable that was Burning and it Seemed like the Entire...
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