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

Soon after news broke about the death of Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, amid the flood of condolences and the raw expressions of grief and shock—came the others; the ones

Being gay is not a sin. Neither is being lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. The Bible never claims that it is. It really doesn’t. Christians should stop saying it because it’s

John McCain seems like a good and decent man, and his Cancer diagnosis is horrific. It’s the kind of news that makes you sick to your stomach; a tragedy for

During a Q & A following a session at Wild Goose Festival, a man asked if I ever considered starting a church. I answered that I didn’t think so, because most

I care deeply about people. My efficacy and usefulness as a pastor and caregiver (and as a decent member of humanity), is predicated on knowing how people’s hearts work, the

A lot can change in a day… Last week, influential Christian pastor Eugene Peterson came out in support of LGBTQ inclusion and gay marriage. It was a massive tremor in

A few times a week, a stranger (not coincidentally, almost always a Conservative Christian guy), drops into my comments sections and attempts to “out me;” sharing all manner of theories

My parents always said to be careful who you associate yourself with because you are known by the company you keep—that the people around you reflect on you and manufacture

“You should stay out of politics and stick to preaching the Gospel.” – Bill, a Christian Several times a day I’m chided by a well-meaning friend, complete stranger, or soon-to-be-disconnecting

Right now, if it really believes what it preaches, the American Church has one foot in Hell and one on a banana peel—and this God-forsaken wannabe theocracy, is that banana peel.

I’ve shed many misplaced tears recently. For a while I thought I was grieving over the loss of America; that I was missing something we used to be, a place

A reader recently shared the following declaration, and it’s one I’ve heard about a billion times—give or take a few hundred thousand: “The Bible clearly says…” He said it, as

“He/she struggles with same-sex attraction.” I’d never heard this phrase until I started working at a church. Come to think of it I still rarely hear it outside of the

I’ve started to believe that social media is slowly killing us. I think it’s killing us one Tweet at a time. I sense our hearts are all slowly bleeding out.

I come bearing good news: You’re wrong about the world. Everything is fine. Bad people are a myth. They simply do not exist. Seriously. There are no racists in the

The bullhorn-wielding sign wavers and pulpit-pounding preachers are right: Jesus condemned many things in the Bible. He condemned those who neglected the poor and the marginalized. He condemned those who

You’d have thought November 9th, 2016 actually was the date of the Rapture. In the twinkling of an eye, millions of Christians (most of them white) seemingly disappeared that day