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May 16, 2014
Progressive Christians Often Seem to Not Give Two Shits About the Persecution, Imprisonment and Martyrdom of Fellow Christians and I Think I Know Why: A Retrospective
I was scanning the news a few nights ago and ran across the name...
May 12, 2014
The Cross and The Needle: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Numerous officials hurried into a back room. The meeting was called to order by the...
May 11, 2014
apoem: beloved & the next day
depression is setting in is it a result of my sin i am growing in...
May 10, 2014
The Ethics of Our Table: Jesus and Meat
Outside during the visit, everyone enjoys playing fetch with the family dog. When the host...
May 06, 2014
Lives Less Valued: Why Black Girls Matter
The classrooms were filled with learning and dreaming. Students were playing on the playground...
May 04, 2014
Courage Not Comfort: A Word to the Rich Young Rulers of Our Churches
I got a phone call from a friend the other day. "I have decided to...
April 2014
April 29, 2014
Botched Executions: A Visit, Jesus in Oklahoma and Us
This morning I visited a young man in the Tarrant County Correctional Facility in Fort...
April 28, 2014
Stand Up! : Remarks at Dallas Pastors for Texas Children
I have spent a few days thinking about Pastors for Texas Children generally and this...
April 27, 2014
Donald Sterling, Churches and Race
I grew up on the Southside of Atlanta. Our county transitioned from a...
April 26, 2014
Glen Stassen 1936-2014 / A Tribute from a Southern Baptist
Baptist Christian Ethicist Glen Stassen died today after a battle with cancer. We only...
April 25, 2014
A Child of God and Boldly Addressing the Violent Hate that Killed Her
Maren Sanchez was stabbed to death today a few days after turning down a...
April 25, 2014
Bent: Why I Decided to Act.
There is danger in forgetting. There is also danger in remembering incorrectly. The tragic...
April 22, 2014
Jesus Sells Drugs: An Easter Message
I have known many Easters. I remember one Easter morning as a child realizing Jesus...
April 18, 2014
Jesus Didn’t Die for Your Sins. Jesus Died to Show You the Way…the Way to the Cross. // Some Words from A Good Friday Walk
Lately, I have had a lot of time to think about borders and boundaries. ...
April 16, 2014
The Passion of Jesus Comes Early: Standing on the Via Dolorsa at the Execution of Jose Luis Villegas Jr.
When Jesus declares I was in prison and you did not visit me…and goes on...
April 14, 2014
Our Enemies Cometh and in them Lay Our Salvation
I have my fair share of enemies these days. I have found that the...
April 14, 2014
Pushing into the Darkness to Be the Light
The children walk down the aisles of our churches waving palms all around. Together,...
April 11, 2014
Finding Inspiration on Immigration in Strange Places // When Jeb Bush Sounded Like Jesus
I believe that there are rare moments when a person speaks to a political...
April 09, 2014
Hand Washing: The Case of Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas
When injustices take place, there are always hand washers. To absolve his self of...
April 09, 2014
Actions Talk and Bullshit Walks: The Story of A Real Christian: Major Kathy Cox of the Salvation Army: Witness to 60+ Executions in Texas
I was scared the first time I visited Texas' Death Row. I knew no one...
April 06, 2014
The Danger of Calls to The Wilderness: A Lenten Response to Rachel Held Evans and Other Progressive Evangelicals
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is a chief producer and promulgator of spiritual abuse....
April 02, 2014
The Danger of Being Called Pastor / Thoughts the Night Before Death Row
The sky has been dark all afternoon. Lately, it seems the sky is always...
March 2014
March 31, 2014
The End of Gay Marriage
The end is near. The writing is on the wall. The courts are ruling...
March 31, 2014
doubt the poem
tears flow you found me fist lands you found me screams condemn you found...
March 28, 2014
A Devotional from a Book that has Some Occasional Shit In It
"But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as...
March 27, 2014
Would We Execute Moses?: The Case of Anthony Doyle
One day, a man became overcome with evil, grabbed an object and repeatedly struck...
March 26, 2014
Power in the Blood: Oscar Romero, A Failed Atonement Theory and the Inner Seed of Liberty
Growing up our church was a rather stoic place. On Sundays we sang stoic songs. ...
March 23, 2014
Why We Can’t Wait: A Sunday Letter from a Baptist Pastor to my Methodist Colleagues
There in the darkness a courageous Baptist Pastor sat furiously transcribing a letter. The words...
March 20, 2014
Jesus Enraged: Overturning Purveyors of Injustice
For many of us, our lives are filled with the mundane and monotonous. ...
March 19, 2014
Double Homicide Tonight: Racism Reigns in Texas
The State of Texas killed Ray Jasper...
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