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April 2017

April 27, 2017
There’s a narrative circulating around United Methodism. It goes something like this: if preachers would...
April 21, 2017
The United Methodist Church faces a major flashpoint next week when our Judicial Council meets...
April 20, 2017
I have spent most of my adult life trying to figure out how to talk...
April 18, 2017
  If I’ve learned one thing in the year since I released my first book,...
April 16, 2017
I've never known what to make of Easter. For evangelicals, the big day is Good...
April 14, 2017
Painting by Bec Cranford-Smith What does it mean that Jesus died for humanity’s sins? It’s...

March 2017

March 03, 2017
In 2016, Louisiana was hit by two of the most devastating floods in our history....
March 03, 2017
If you don't think there's anything toxic about American Christianity, then you can stop reading...
March 01, 2017
It's no secret that the mainline church would prefer not to talk about sin. That's...

February 2017

February 28, 2017
This past weekend in worship, we had the opportunity to consider Proverbs 3:27. In the...
February 23, 2017
Mark Van Steenwyk had an interesting proposal in a recent Sojourners article: taking disruptive direct...
February 20, 2017
Milo Yiannopoulos is the poster boy of the alt-right movement. His entire platform is based...
February 20, 2017
On a recent podcast episode with Scot McKnight and Kenneth Tanner, Kenneth made the comment...
February 17, 2017
Fifteen years ago, I worked for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), a mostly Latino immigrant...
February 14, 2017
When I first entered the world of white radicalism in the early 2000's, I noticed...
February 09, 2017
On Tuesday, the daily office lectionary included this verse from 2 Timothy 1:7: "God did...
February 08, 2017
Ten years ago, my name was Mr. G. I was the 10th grade English and...
February 07, 2017
I recently had the opportunity to interview a Muslim immigrant woman named Mona as part...
February 02, 2017
This week, I got to do church in a way that I hadn't experienced before. After...

January 2017

January 29, 2017
If you want to get to the core ethos of true Christianity, Ephesians 2:14 is...
January 27, 2017
In order to cope with the events of last week, my wife and I have...
January 26, 2017
The stock market was supposed to crash when Donald Trump became president, because of all...
January 24, 2017
While government officials have always distorted truth, the Trump Administration is the first to openly...
January 14, 2017
Milo Yiannopoulos is a despicable person. In addition to his racist alt-right views, his entire platform is...
January 11, 2017
When the news broke of Russian interference in the presidential election, Franklin Graham responded with...
January 10, 2017
Before I was ever a writer, I played football. I love the game. It's one...
January 07, 2017
First Things senior editor and Emory English professor Mark Bauerlein is intimidated by his college...
January 04, 2017
A crucial part of my conservative evangelical upbringing was learning about the difference between “absolute...

December 2016

December 31, 2016
I don't do my end of year top 10 list according to popularity, because the...
December 30, 2016
There are two days left in 2016. That means you have two days left to...
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