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Jesus Was Guilty
— Welcome to my ‘Layman’s Lectionary’ series where I stumble my way through the liturgical year and share my layman’s testimonies and confessions on modern culture and daily life as it corresponds to...
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America, We’re in the Endgame Now
This week as I giddily watched a small army of superheroes on-screen, laying aside their petty squabbling, past disagreements, and warring egos in order to defeat a delusional madman with contempt for...
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Dear Church, Here’s Why People Are Leaving
Dear Church, The Exodus has begun and it’s not going to stop. People are leaving you and they’re probably not coming back. I’ve been where you are and I know what’s happening within you right now. I...
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Why Conservative Christians Don’t Understand the Harm They Cause
Gandhi supposedly once said, “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” For many people today this is still true. As more states across the country...
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Silence is Not Golden
— As a columnist for the Good Men Project, I get writing prompts from time to time to help spur thoughts and conversations about topics that are discussed on the Good Men Project website. Usually, I...
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Is It Blasphemy or Honesty?
— Blasphemy isn’t a dirty word. It simply means voicing doubts about supernatural religious claims. That’s normal for intelligent, science-minded people. They merely express their honest conclusions...
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Saturday Shootings and Sunday Services
As I write this it’s Saturday in America. It’s Saturday and there’s been another shooting. Once again we find ourselves here in this terribly familiar place. We are grieving again. We’re watching in...
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The Irony of White Evangelicals and Their Offense at Taking the Lord’s Name...
According to a Politico article, the thing that finally has white evangelicals fussing with their Pat Robertson-approved purity corsets is Donald Trump’s potty mouth. Apparently, things are reaching a...
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Asking a Wrong Question
— Of late I’ve seen complaints on social media about the lack of news coverage of Christians being slaughtered in places like Nigeria, Egypt and, most recently during Easter services (more accurately,...
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‘Christian Left’ is Reviving in America
— ‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants Citing scripture and church teachings, ever more Christians are pushing progressive policy positions based in their faith....
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Changing Gods
— My divorce changed everything. I mean everything. After I asked for a divorce, I stopped going to church. I stopped for a couple of reasons, but the most important reason was I needed a safe place to...
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This or Something Better
— This or something better. I’ve added “this or something better to the end of my prayers, especially the ones where I make requests. Its an act of surrender. It says, I trust that if You don’t give me...
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The Christian Right is Radicalizing White People I Love
A year ago I walked into an older relative’s house unannounced. They’d been expecting us that day for lunch, but we’d arrived thirty minutes earlier than we’d planned—so we knocked and walked in. The...
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Sometimes You Get More than a Latte
The viral photo… You may have seen it. Three young men leaning out of the drive-thru of Dutch Bros Coffee, their hands joined with the woman inside the car. It was a candid moment, caught by a random...
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Kissing Christianity Goodbye
Recently the evangelical world was roiled with the news that Joshua Harris, author of the book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” which he has since disavowed and apologized for, was separating from his wife...
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Losing Your Life for the Sake of Fear
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their...
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What’s Your Personal Salvation Project?
A good indicator is to scroll through your social media feed. What are you sharing the most in public? Perhaps it’s something that you use as a social barometer to measure yourself up against others....
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A God Unworthy of Praise or Worship
Having grown up in the American South — in Nashville to be precise, where it always seemed everyone was either trying to get a record deal or start a church (or both) — I have long found evangelical...
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Why Millennials Don’t Believe In Marriage Anymore
Let’s look at some numbers for perspective. According to the Pew Research Center and multiple studies on marriage practices of millennials, around 26% of millennials get married in the age between 18...
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Me, of Little Faith
The need for approval hums a timeless tune that resounds through the core of the human experience… Acknowledge me, affirm me, love me, tell me I’m enough. At the crux of the matter, it’s what we yearn...
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