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January 2019

January 11, 2019
Make us your flesh; let your love drip down like oil that is messy &...
January 09, 2019
Holiness is one of the most important and controversial aspects of John Wesley's 300 year...
January 08, 2019
Donald Trump would not be fixated on building a wall on the southern border of...
January 02, 2019
No, I'm not going to say Donald Trump is the anti-Christ. Because I don't believe...

December 2018

December 30, 2018
We took a risk when NOLA Wesley started the Labyrinth cafe. Meaning we did something...
December 28, 2018
Fred Hartley's Dare to Be Different was one of the books that defined my evangelical...
December 24, 2018
Jesus is God's rebellion against humanity. That statement is as offensive as the real Christmas...

November 2018

November 24, 2018
Yesterday my friend and mentor Brian Zahnd got a lot of flak for tweeting about...
November 20, 2018
I debated whether to call this a love letter or an open letter. Love letter...
November 09, 2018
Last weekend was the first-ever global legislative assembly for the Wesleyan Covenant Association, the United...
November 02, 2018
I am Cain; And my altar doesn’t burn. Oh it burns some As long as...

October 2018

October 31, 2018
The continuous meta-debate within the United Methodist debate is to ask: what are we really...
October 29, 2018
If anyone on the Internet remains blissfully unaware, the Babylon Bee is a Calvinist satire...
October 28, 2018
White supremacist in Charlottesville [Wikimedia C.C.]The gunman who killed 11 people this weekend at the...
October 16, 2018
First, I'm not sure whether you actually exist. You may be the invention of the...
October 08, 2018
Today is the day our country celebrates the conquest and genocide of native Americans at...
October 03, 2018
Swearing-in Ceremony for Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...
October 01, 2018
Most of the people who read this blog post live in what we could call...

September 2018

September 27, 2018
I haven't had the psychological tenacity to watch the Kavanaugh hearings today. But I have...
September 25, 2018
We live in a world that is sexually unsafe. Especially in college. Especially on the...
September 24, 2018
  Building a cohesive spiritual community with college students is the hardest thing I’ve ever...
September 15, 2018
Pope Francis is my problematic fave. I'm sure he's exhibited plenty of personal moral failures...
September 11, 2018
Tennis has always been an aristocrats' game. It's like golf. You take your prospective business...

August 2018

August 29, 2018
[CN: church-based sexual trauma, some brief description] It's getting hard to keep quiet about the...
August 24, 2018
Admittedly I put the word "evangelicals" in the title of this blog post as click-bait,...
August 19, 2018
At my Thursday men's group last week, somebody brought up a song from the punk...

July 2018

July 23, 2018
If there’s one book your church small group needs to order for this fall, it’s...
July 12, 2018
The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not seize it. John 1:5...
July 09, 2018
"Go and find out what this means: 'I desire mercy not sacrifice.'" Matthew 9:13 This...
July 03, 2018
God has convicted me of the need to write a different set of blog posts...
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