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February 18, 2024
Faith Fallacies: God Won’t Give You More Than You Can Handle
Time for another edition of Faith Fallacies, where we take a look at ideas that...
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The NFL (Taylor’s Version), Toxic Masculinity, and the Bible
Okay, men, we’ve gotta have a talk. It’s about Taylor Swift. Actually, I guess it...
January 29, 2024
Who Would Jesus Execute? Christians and the Death Penalty
Can we talk about the death penalty for a minute? An Execution in Alabama This...
January 26, 2024
Butt Dial or Booty Call? Biblical Context Matters
Last week I saw a quotation at @deadsoulpoetry on X (formerly Twitter) that said, “2000...
January 23, 2024
Faith Fallacies: “Everything Happens For a Reason”
This is the first in what I plan on being a semi-regular feature at Not...
January 21, 2024
Why Do Christians Continue to Support Donald Trump?
Democrats are banking on the hope that the country would not take back a defeated...
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Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, when we remember a...
January 11, 2024
Barbie, the Golden Globes, and the Church
Can we talk about this past weekend’s Golden Globe awards for a minute? The Barbie...
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Making Epiphany Great Again
January 6th is about an unstable, power-hungry, and paranoid leader with delusions of grandeur. He...
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December 30, 2023
Why I Love the Bible’s “Christmas That Isn’t Christmas”
While I love the Nativity story, there are days when I need to hear not...
December 29, 2023
Today’s Massacre of the Innocents in Gaza and Israel
Some Sobering Numbers Over 8,800 children have been killed in Gaza, Israel, and the West...
December 27, 2023
Why My Governor’s a Goat
My governor is a goat. Not the G.O.A.T. as in how we've started to abbreviate the title...
December 26, 2023
Unto Us a Child Is Born—But First, Contractions
With all the religious significance around Jesus’s birth (and rightfully so), it’s easy to forget...
December 22, 2023
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We all have our own mental images of what that first Christmas may have looked...
December 20, 2023
Ave Maria—An Advent Poem For Divine Revolution
Ave Maria is a selection from Cross Sections, a book of progressive poetry I wrote...
December 20, 2023
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Each year on December 21st, I become a pagan. Before you clutch your pearls, don’t...
December 14, 2023
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It’s begun again. Every year, we hear whining from the Christian Right complaining that there...
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