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This Is My Body (A Poem About Having A Queer Christian Body)
Jesus is teaching me how to live In a body that is always dying And...
April 18, 2020
Spiritual Memoir (A Poem About My Life)
In my spiritual memoir, Satan will never have A speaking part because it’s Satan who...
April 12, 2020
Two Poems About Easter
I. Bus Terminal There’s a feeling like we’re all Just sitting in a bus terminal...
February 2020
February 07, 2020
If Shakira’s Tongue Causes Your Eye To Sin, Cut Your Eyeball Out
I wasn't going to post anything about the Superbowl halftime show. But people kept talking...
December 2019
December 05, 2019
The Conservative Insight I Cannot Reject
We live in an age in which actual conservative principles have been buried by tribal...
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September 15, 2018
Satan and the Scandals of the Church
Pope Francis is my problematic fave. I'm sure he's exhibited plenty of personal moral failures...
August 2018
August 29, 2018
No, You Can’t Blame Pope Francis For This
[CN: church-based sexual trauma, some brief description] It's getting hard to keep quiet about the...
January 2018
January 16, 2018
Can Player Culture Get Canceled Forever?
In the 1999 film Magnolia, Tom Cruise plays professional misogynist self-help guru Frank "T.J." Mackie...
December 2017
December 31, 2017
Top 10 Posts From 2017
Well it's time again to share the top blog posts over the past year. I'm...
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November 30, 2017
Sex As Grace (Reflecting On A Discussion With College Men)
"Togetherness in Bed," rt69, Flickr C.C. This week, I decided to go through former Archbishop...
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April 14, 2016
That time the apostle Paul actually gave direct instructions about sex
I've been having the usual never-ending social media conversation about sexuality, so I thought it...
January 2016
January 30, 2016
Can you party and still be a Christian?
It's Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, which can be an awkward time for a...
September 2015
September 04, 2015
The squandered witness of anti-gay “martyrdom” in an age of dehumanizing sex
I'm not going to call Kim Davis a bigot. I don't think she's a malicious...
May 2015
May 14, 2015
Jesus’ holiness vs. our moralism (with Debra Hirsch)
I've been reading Debra Hirsch's Redeeming Sex as part of the Patheos Book Club for...
February 2015
February 13, 2015
Can Christianity be sex-positive? A chat with Dianna Anderson
Dianna Anderson is a twitter friend and conversation partner who is part of our growing tribe...
December 2014
December 06, 2014
Media sensationalism and rape culture at my alma mater UVA (TW: rape culture)
It's been a hard couple of weeks to be a Wahoo in the wake of...
October 2014
October 13, 2014
Is God arbitrary? (my point of contention with conservative evangelicals)
Is there anything that God asks us to do for no other reason than because...
September 2014
September 29, 2014
“Against you alone have I sinned” (the solipsism of evangelical morality)
"Against you alone have I sinned." These words from Psalm 51:4 are attributed to the...
September 23, 2014
Cock-blocking and rape culture
It's one of those phrases you know not to use in mixed company. But there's...
August 2014
August 08, 2014
What if instead of attacking gay people, evangelicals supported celibate monasticism?
The latest thing conservative evangelicals on social media are getting excited about and sharing around...
June 2014
June 12, 2014
What does a safe and fruitful church conversation about sexuality look like?
The Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church will be meeting next weekend in Hampton,...
May 2014
May 26, 2014
I could have been Elliot Rodger
I know you're not supposed to read the manifesto of a mass murderer, but that's...
April 2014
April 24, 2014
Social holiness is about way more than sex
Fellow Methodist pastor Evan Rohrs-Dodge wrote a very legitimate post recently pointing out the distinction...
March 2014
March 05, 2014
Wrestling with sex (#sermon #podcast)
This was the final sermon of our Wrestling series a couple of weekends ago. We...
November 2013
November 05, 2013
A litmus test of Christian morality: the film North Country
My wife and I wanted to watch a light film at home this past Saturday...
October 2013
October 02, 2013
The God who wants us to stay thirsty
Eros is an exasperatingly paradoxical kind of love. It is most fulfilled by being perpetually...
September 2013
September 19, 2013
C.S. Lewis talks about erotic love
This weekend, Burke United Methodist Church will continue in our sermon series on the four...
September 05, 2013
“Biblical” men don’t date? (A face-palmer from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood)
Normally I don't see much of a point in engaging fundamentalist Christian entities like the...
August 2013
August 27, 2013
Robin Thicke, Miley Cyrus, and the death of eros
No, Will Smith and his family weren't actually watching Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke grind...
August 12, 2013
Feminism, sex, and virtue in Margaret Farley’s Just Love
I have been reading Margaret Farley's Just Love: A Framework for Christian Ethics, the book...
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