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July 2017

July 17, 2017
Members of the Sanhedrin, I understand that the charges against me are quite serious. So...
July 13, 2017
I don't have time to write a real blog post since I'm leaving for Wild...
July 09, 2017
I've been traveling for the past week so I've only had internet access on my...
July 04, 2017
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were not biblical inerrantists. If they had been,...
July 03, 2017
I was planning to go off on the evangelicals in this blog post. After First...

June 2017

June 29, 2017
Google is filled with legalistic, fundamentalist explanations of what a false prophet is. Usually it...
June 28, 2017
One of the most bizarre phenomena of the Trump era is the reintroduction of a...
June 23, 2017
Atonement is the centerpiece of Christian theology. It’s a compound word that literally means what...
June 22, 2017
I would not call myself a liberal Christian. I self-identify as a progressive evangelical, which...
June 20, 2017
In the United Methodist Church sexuality debate, one way to talk about the various constituencies...
June 19, 2017
I just got back from my home annual conference of Virginia. We've got a new...
June 18, 2017
I dedicated my book How Jesus Saves the World From Us to my dad because...
June 16, 2017
I blew up at a guy on the Internet for trying to make a comparison...
June 14, 2017
It's a measure of how morally depraved the church has become that a Southern Baptist...
June 12, 2017
The book of Numbers was the source text of the message this year at Louisiana's United...
June 10, 2017
How should Christians respond to Donald Trump's meltdown? My first instinct is schadenfreude. Because 81%...
June 07, 2017
When we did a series of video interviews with our students this spring, I was...
June 01, 2017
Today, Donald Trump announced that the US is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, an...

May 2017

May 31, 2017
A few weeks ago, I went to my neighborhood Catholic bookstore to get a new...
May 25, 2017
"It would be one thing for a candidate to throttle and hit a reporter, but...
May 25, 2017
In announcing the Trump administration's proposed budget this week, White house budget director Mike Mulvaney...
May 24, 2017
On May 24th, 1738, John Wesley attended a Moravian church gathering on Aldersgate Street in...
May 19, 2017
I would argue that what AA calls "recovery" is what Christian salvation was supposed to...
May 15, 2017
I met him in the lounge of what Tulane calls the O, where Office of...
May 11, 2017
"Of course, so-called anti-racism is anti-intellectual. It is also totalitarian and genocidally racist." That's definitely...
May 09, 2017
Dear Dr. Griffiths, One of my deepest regrets from my time as a Duke Divinity...
May 05, 2017
One of the most transformative moments of my life happened in Mexico. My friend  Kevin...
May 03, 2017
It's always easiest to imagine humanity existing in a single dualistic contrast. I do this...
May 02, 2017
The United Methodist Judicial Council ruled this past weekend that Karen Oliveto was elected illegally...
May 01, 2017
I'm going to be marching today with a group of immigrants whom some people call "illegal...
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