Recently my 13-year old was feeling nostalgic and asked to see some videos I’d taken of him as a child, so I rigged up the now long-antiquated camcorder through our

I love my Atheist and Agnostic friends. I love my Muslim friends and Jewish friends, my Buddhist and my Hindu friends, my backsliding, formerly Christian friends, my self-admitted heathen friends,

I’ve always despised bullies. Ever since I was a young boy I could see them clearly; on the playground and in the hallways and on the street corners—the way they

America is facing a growing poverty in these days. We are going broke an alarming rate, and we need to do something quickly to change our corporate fortunes. This is

I know thousands of people who say they follow Jesus, and I see millions more who I know are just like them. For the past two decades I’ve pastored them

God is not a dude. God is not a man. God is not a He. Growing up, I was taught that “He” most certainly was all of those things—and it

What we’ve got here is, failure to communicate… Friend, I know you think I’m resistant to engage with you because I’m intolerant or because I’m unwilling to entertain someone else’s

The United Methodist Church is currently in the midst of potentially Denomination-splitting discussions on the Church’s official stance on LGBTQ inclusion. As someone who has served in the UMC for

The day my father died, I was at the grocery store buying bananas. I remember thinking to myself, “This is insane. Your dad just died. Why the hell are you

I love this country. I don’t love it blindly, though. I don’t love it unconditionally. I don’t love it unreservedly. I love it with my eyes fully open. I see

Today I dropped off my daughter at school, the way I do every day. Some mornings are an orderly, measured endeavor; but more often they’re a frantic, swirling tumult of

Conservative Christian, I want to talk to you about Life. No, not the word you’ve weaponized as ammunition in your incessant, hollow holy culture war; the one you use to

The table makers are winning. Yes, the wall builders will always get the attention. Discord sells. Bitterness makes the news. Hatred garners clicks. Acts of violence and expressions of enmity

You’re alive right now. Up to this point today you probably haven’t given that fact much thought. It’s likely in all you have going on, that you haven’t stop to

We all know the real State of the Union. We know the version we hear from one person—and we know the truth. We know, because we are here on the

“I don’t recognize her anymore.” Through choked back tears, a man shared these words today about his 74-year old mother. The last two years have seen their once-loving relationship deteriorate

We human beings tend to be emotionally lazy. We’re prone to taking the thought process of least resistance. As we move through the day and people cross our paths, we

Sometimes we need to name cruelty plainly, to say it unequivocally, to not dance around it for the sake of decorum: It’s asinine not to want someone else to have

Yesterday I was meeting people after an event in Minneapolis. A woman approached me, and as she began to speak, her voice quivered and she paused to collect herself. Looking

Everyone, the Vice President is offended. In the wake of the response to the news that his wife Karen, is working for a school that excludes both LGBTQ students and

Rep. Rashida Tlaib cussed last week—and I couldn’t care less. And let’s be honest—you who are clutching your pearls and carrying on and feigning righteous indignation, don’t care either. On

Most morally compromised men of faith don’t sell their souls all at once. Sometimes it happens in a billion tiny transactions; a series of infinitesimal compromises over time, that are

I love the look I saw this week. It was the look of terrified dinosaurs realizing that the meteorite is on its way; the dilated pupils in the eyes of

As I stepped onto the stage at a late October Vote Common Good tour stop event in central Texas, our boisterous, cannon-throated Musical Director, the Reverend Vince Anderson, ripped into