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June 2018

June 29, 2018
It's an ancient image from July 2016, in a different age before Donald Trump was...
June 19, 2018
White feelings can be dangerous for people of color. When a white police officer feels...
June 17, 2018
It's often the case that I write blogs because I can't go to sleep since...
June 16, 2018
I'm currently at the Virginia annual conference, the yearly gathering where United Methodist laity and...
June 15, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a United Methodist layperson. Somewhere along the way in his...
June 12, 2018
Carolyn Moore is probably my favorite conservative United Methodist leader. What I see in her...
June 08, 2018
The Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church has a practice each annual conference of...
June 01, 2018
Ivanka Trump posted this photo with her son on Twitter because she's a mom and...

May 2018

May 24, 2018
Today, the NFL announced that NFL teams will be fined if their players kneel for...
May 23, 2018
I've just been informed that the Patheos Evangelical channel has closed down the blog of...
May 19, 2018
In his sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Episcopal Presiding...
May 17, 2018
The first time I walked a prayer labyrinth was at the Richmond Hill retreat center...
May 16, 2018
It's a question that's been haunting me throughout my campus ministry career. What do I...
May 15, 2018
The recent massacre of dozens of Gaza protesters by Israeli snipers is a tremendous tragedy,...
May 14, 2018
Today's daily office epistle reading is part of the beautifully mystical letter to the Ephesians....
May 10, 2018
There are a number of verses in the Bible that summarize Christian salvation. Each of...
May 09, 2018
An article came across my social media feed from the Durham Independent Weekly that two...
May 08, 2018
Dear Wesleyan Covenant Association and other like-minded United Methodists, I made a fool out of...
May 03, 2018
For those of you who have been following the drama around fundamentalist seminary president Paige...
May 02, 2018
I have the pleasure of sharing a great conversation I had with my good friend...

April 2018

April 25, 2018
Tim Keller wrote two books Prodigal God and Generous Justice that really shaped me and which...
April 18, 2018
This past Sunday, I preached on Micah 4:1-5. If you'd like to hear what I...
April 17, 2018
When I was a first year student at the University of Virginia in the late...
April 13, 2018
One of my favorite songs by the dark industrial synthpop band VNV Nation is "Control"...
April 12, 2018
In 2019, United Methodism will experience an apocalypse. Representatives from all over the world will...
April 10, 2018
The best preparation for me to become a woketivist as an adult was growing up...
April 03, 2018
Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, he had...
April 01, 2018
Why does it matter that Jesus was raised from the dead? Perhaps it doesn't if...

March 2018

March 31, 2018
Today is Holy Saturday, the day Jesus spent in the grave. It's a day on...
March 30, 2018
Jesus' cross is hard to talk about. It's an impossibly awkward, illogical mystery. It's very...
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