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August 23, 2016
The orthodoxy of the blues
The seventh chapter of my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us is about...
August 21, 2016
My conversation with Shane Blackshear
A couple of weeks ago in Austin, I got to talk about my book on...
August 20, 2016
Does love really trump hate or is that just a hashtag?
For the past week, I've been haunted by a moment that occurred during some dead...
August 18, 2016
American exceptionalism (a poem inspired by Ryan Lochte)
You know that we're the only real democracy; Other countries are corrupt; They don't have...
August 18, 2016
Can the gospel be orthodox and inclusive?
One of the tragedies of our civil war in United Methodism has been the bifurcation...
August 16, 2016
What is the gospel?
In our latest podcast on Crackers & Grape Juice, we respond to the question in...
August 14, 2016
It’s time to put the knife down
At our joint book event this weekend, Liz Edman read a passage from her book...
August 13, 2016
My conversation with Queer Virtue’s Liz Edman
Today was the big day. I got to have a public conversation with Liz Edman,...
August 12, 2016
Mark Yaconelli’s The Gift of Hard Things
It's clear that Mark Yaconelli is a spiritual director from his storytelling. He does with...
August 11, 2016
Who are the false prophets? (Matthew 24:11-12)
I stumbled across a scripture that I've been meditating on this week. The Ferguson Declaration...
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...
August 09, 2016
Have you murdered Hillary Clinton in your heart?
Every night after dinner, my sons and I read the Bible together. Tonight our scripture...
August 09, 2016
Engaging the Ferguson Declaration: A #BlackLivesMatter Creed
Today is the two year anniversary of the murder of Michael Brown on Canfield Street...
August 08, 2016
Liz Edman: queer pride vs. Christian empire
This June, I had one of the most epic conversations of my life in a...
August 05, 2016
Wayne Grudem and the evangelical double-standard of sin
Donald Trump received a significant endorsement recently from Wayne Grudem, the man who wrote the...
August 03, 2016
What if it were safe to be wrong?
Our political discourse has become entirely satanic. I mean that in a very specific way....
August 01, 2016
How I can relate to Donald Trump
I recently read an article that I can't find anymore which provided a very interesting...
July 2016
July 30, 2016
Emily Joy’s poetic heart
Emily Joy was my final Wild Goose interview. She grew up in a homeschooling fundamentalist...
July 29, 2016
Bec Cranford: tattooed Pentecostal wonder-woman
I'm continuing to play catch up on my Wild Goose interviews for Crackers and Grape...
July 28, 2016
I alone can fix it: the delusion of the white messiah
"I alone can fix it." Donald Trump has said a lot of things that he's...
July 28, 2016
Brandan Robertson’s rich nomadic spirituality
I've gotten way behind in sharing my Wild Goose interviews on the Crackers and Grape...
July 28, 2016
Seven ways to be an untoxic Christian during a toxic presidential campaign
We're living through what seems like the most toxic presidential campaign in American history. It's...
July 27, 2016
Our Chicago #DetoxifyChristianity panel
In Chicago last night, I had the privilege of sitting in a panel discussion with...
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 21, 2016
Sarah Heath’s contagious love
If you're a super nerdy Methodist and you know about the production Chuck Knows Church, you...
July 20, 2016
So your local church can’t do ministry because there’s a gay bishop out there?
Good News magazine recently published an open letter to the United Methodist Council of Bishops...
July 19, 2016
So what about those values in Melania’s plagiarized speech?
I'm used to treating political speeches like fluff. I don't expect them to actually be...
July 19, 2016
Please support our inclusive, justice-seeking campus ministry!
There is not a more critical time in the spiritual journey of Christians today than when...
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 18, 2016
Mark Burns takes the Lord’s name in vain
The following prayer at the Republican National Convention is the clearest example I've yet seen...
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