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August 2015

August 18, 2015
In case you missed it, there's been a huge debate about the Black Lives Matter...
August 10, 2015
Over the past several years, I have become facebook friends with a number of Christian...

July 2015

July 15, 2015
For two and a half years, I spent my Mondays at the Basilica of the...
July 07, 2015
Kevin DeYoung’s 40 questions for rainbow-flag waving Christians has been making rounds across the internet...
July 05, 2015
I must confess I’ve had some stereotypes in my head when it comes to small...

June 2015

June 30, 2015
This year's Virginia Annual Conference had the theme "From Members to Disciples." It's a common...
June 26, 2015
Today the Supreme Court declared that same-sex marriage is the law of the land. I...
June 24, 2015
White supremacy. It's not just terrorists in white hoods who burn crosses and lynch black...
June 19, 2015
I have many anti-gay Christians in my life and I love them at least as...
June 17, 2015
On the last day of our United Methodist Louisiana annual conference this year, a young...
June 14, 2015
By now, just about everyone has heard of the white woman Rachel Dolezal who's been...
June 12, 2015
Over the past year, as police brutality against people of color has come under increasing...
June 10, 2015
I'm at the Louisiana annual conference where Dr. Elaine Heath is one of our guest...
June 08, 2015
This past weekend, I found myself home alone without my wife or kids, so I...
June 06, 2015
Yesterday's lectionary reading included a passage from Deuteronomy 26 that gives instructions on what the...
June 04, 2015
My Facebook feed has blown up with a Vox article by a "liberal professor" who...
June 03, 2015
Predictably, there have been a lot of ignorant Christian responses to Caitlyn Jenner's coming out....

May 2015

May 22, 2015
I read a really chilling blog post on Homeschooler's Anonymous about a disciplinary practice in...
May 19, 2015
  I'm not sure who's getting more mileage out of the Pew report on church...
May 16, 2015
This past week, our local New Orleans newspaper ran a story about Sister Helen Prejean's...
May 14, 2015
I've been reading Debra Hirsch's Redeeming Sex as part of the Patheos Book Club for...
May 13, 2015
The latest buzz on the Christian internet is the Pew research report about Christianity's decline in...
May 12, 2015
I am a social justice warrior. I mean that in the strictly pejorative sense of...
May 11, 2015
Christians behave badly on social media. We're rude. We're arrogant. We gossip. We spread rumors....
May 10, 2015
This is my mom with my eldest son a few Christmases ago. She's an excellent...
May 06, 2015
The other week, a friend playfully tweeted out a warning not to mess around with...
May 05, 2015
I've been reading Elaine Heath and Larry Duggins' book Missional. Monastic. Mainline. for a New...
May 04, 2015
The Christian blogosphere has been talking a lot about narcissism lately, particularly in the context...
May 01, 2015
"But let justice roll down like waters; and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Amos 5:24...

April 2015

April 28, 2015
There's something about shattered glass. It crosses a line for middle-class white people like me....
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