“We should do a CAT scan just to rule out some things.” the Urgent Care doctor said. Before I could ask him, he responded to the question that immediately formed

Dear Joel Osteen, Over the past few days you’ve faced an unrelenting wave of Internet shaming, and you’ve experienced the wrath of millions of people who watched the week unfold

This week over 150 Evangelical pastors and Conservative Christian leaders released a joint manifesto on sexuality and marriage entitled the Nashville Statement. The Tennessee city’s name was attached to the

This American Evangelical Christian Church wasn’t the plan. Well, it wasn’t Jesus’ plan. It may have been Constantine’s plan—but not Jesus’. Evangelists with a political leader’s ear; publicly shilling for him

“Why do you still call yourself a Christian?” If I had a dime for every time someone asked me that question—I’d be writing this from my villa in Tuscany while

Earlier in the week I wrote about the privilege of being able to opt out of politics, out of activism, out of engaging in the difficult, messy work of justice

Yesterday, a dear friend of mine and I were catching up on each other’s lives after not having spoken for a while. As our conversation turned to the news of

We Christians like to talk about Hell a lot, so let’s talk about Hell a little. Hell began in the very first few daylight hours after Donald Trump’s election victory:

Mr. President, Thank you for giving me a name today. I wasn’t quite sure until now, but you helped me find myself.  “Alt-Left.” That’s what you said. That’s what you

As a writer and pastor, my job is to weave together words so that those words will hopefully reach people in their deepest places; to frame the experience of this

When things in our lives are defective, we get rid of them. When they aren’t functioning properly, when they no longer serve their original intended purpose, when they present a

We all have things trending in our heads at any given moment; words that occupy the daily bandwidth of our thoughts and monopolize our attention as we move through the

Texting is easy. My children can do it (in fact, far faster than I can.) It’s an effortless thing to toss out 280-character salvos at people we disagree with, to

Earlier this year Sinead O’Connor posted a video from a New Jersey hotel room, in which she shares in raw, unflinching detail, her long battle with mental illness. In the

Parents out there with LGBTQ children: I see you. I see your held back tears and the weariness you wear and the weight upon your shoulders. I hear you when you tell me how

This far into Donald Trump’s Presidency, I’m aware that some of you take great issue with my pointed critiques of the man, his body of work, and his supporters—because you’re

Dear Trump Supporter, For years you’ve been telling me that you don’t actually hate LGBTQ people; that in fact you quite love them—you just despise their “immoral lifestyle choices.” You’ve

I once was blind, but now I see. I think I’ve finally found the truth that really will set me free. After years of pushing him away, I’m think I’m

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,  that you may be

Some mornings as a parent you wake up and notice that your children are gone. Physically they’re still present in the house, but they aren’t the children you had last

Sometimes you see evil and you try to convince yourself it’s something else. You do your best not to ascribe motives to the offender, you run through all sorts of

“Hatred is winning.” Many times a day I find myself thinking this—maybe just as some internal primal scream therapy, a pressure release to fend off a coming explosion, a way

Some things live solely at the expense of others. They feed off those they attach themselves to; robbing their hosts of their lifeblood, sapping them of their vitality, gradually depleting

Dear Boys, I’m sorry. I know you didn’t quite understand what you were watching the other night at the Jamboree. I can imagine the excitement of the moment, the energy