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January 2020

January 04, 2020
I first became a licensed local pastor in July 2010. Over the course of the...

December 2019

December 13, 2019
My buddy Jason Micheli recently wrote about the gap between the Christianities of conservative evangelical...
December 05, 2019
We live in an age in which actual conservative principles have been buried by tribal...

November 2019

November 13, 2019
As United Methodism approaches our denominational apocalypse at the May 2020 General Conference, I've come...

October 2019

October 30, 2019
My therapist told me something last week that blew my mind. The Hebrew word rafa...
October 09, 2019
A recent drama in Christian Twitter (several news cycles ago) involved the circulation of a...

September 2019

September 17, 2019
One of the most uncomfortable and least talked about parables of Jesus is his parable...

August 2019

August 20, 2019
I'm not the best person at parsing through details. Right now I'm in the thick...
August 14, 2019
For those of you who weren't following progressive Christian twitter a few days ago, there...

June 2019

June 30, 2019
This past Friday, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots that inaugurated the gay...
June 26, 2019
The gospel reading for this past Sunday was the story of the Gerasene demoniac in...
June 22, 2019
Our Virginia annual conference happened in Roanoke this year. As I drove from my parents'...
June 12, 2019
I've shared before that I'm a survivor of childhood sexual trauma in a Southern Baptist...

May 2019

May 21, 2019
This is probably one of those awkward dad moments when I misuse a term like...
May 08, 2019
I should have known that I was going to get snarky replies from conservative evangelicals...
May 07, 2019
I'm very new to the Game of Thrones world. Since some of my students are...
May 04, 2019
I was motivated to start this blog after I discovered Rachel Held Evans in 2011...

April 2019

April 21, 2019
On this Holy Saturday, the New York Times published an interview with Serene Jones, the...
April 19, 2019
I decided to get back on the blog for Good Friday since I've been thinking...

March 2019

March 05, 2019
[The following is a testimony from Turinawe Samson, the founder of Universal Love Alliance, the...

February 2019

February 27, 2019
Today is a hard day. I have been trying to figure out how to channel...
February 26, 2019
I just spent a three-day Cursillo retreat with mostly older, conservative small-town United Methodists in...
February 19, 2019
As United Methodists enter the final week before our called General Conference on queer sexuality,...
February 05, 2019
"Saul, why do you persecute me?" "What God has made clean, you must not call...
February 02, 2019
Jason Micheli is my closest frenemy who isn't openly Calvinist. I love Jason, but sometimes...
February 02, 2019
Jason Micheli is my closest frenemy who isn't openly Calvinist. I love Jason, but sometimes...

January 2019

January 31, 2019
I denied Christ, just like Simon Peter when the cock crowed. It was a couple...
January 25, 2019
The pro-life movement is all over social media up in arms over the new New...
January 22, 2019
I sinned. I reacted impulsively and opportunistically to the Covington Catholic drama with my hot...
January 20, 2019
The boys of Covington Catholic High School stole the show at this weekend's March for...
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