What Keeps Us Safe?
Christmas reminds us that our safety rests not in ourselves but in each other.
Death in September
I am a person who often chooses cynicism over hope.
Why in the World Would Anyone Get Ordained Today?
Why would you purposefully commit your life to something that was so obviously dead and dying?
Don’t You Dare Tell Me I’m Not Evangelical
I reject your decadent patriarchy; your limited view of God; your stranglehold on God's sovereignty, your exclusive claim to religion; your smugness; your fear of evangelism.
The Lie of American Freedom: A Theology of Glory
Perhaps the most heartbreaking thing about the American Dream in 2018 is the obliteration of the idea that it is even a worthy or legitimate dream for everyone.
America and the Loss of Collective Memory
Collective memory, even painful collective memory, can be a great force for binding together communities, faith groups, and even nations.
End the Billy Graham Rule
Men can do better. The Billy Graham Rule thinks too little of men — especially the men I know.
Bill Hybels: Why Sexual Harassment is Not a ‘Distraction’
But for Jesus, how we treat other human beings is anything but a distraction. It's the center of the gospel.
A Glimpse of Heaven
Rare is the person who wants hell to exist because they need it for themselves. We need hell as a convenient place to put all the people we hate. As an option for ourselves and our loved ones, well, hell becomes a lot less popular.
What If We Heard Each Other This Easter?
And what I heard Jesus saying to me is I had to hear the seniors. I had to listen to my own elders and yes, at this moment, Jesus was asking me to listen to the old white men at Bible study.