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  • Leaving Evangelical spaces does not mean you’re leaving whiteness

    Too often we get our minds set for objection when we hear something like “whiteness.” We get arguments ready, like, “I can’t help being born white.” We don’t stop to think through terms and so we choose to be offended and cut off everything that follows. Read more

  • Evangelical reckoning

    Staying silent does me no good. It is long past time for white evangelicals to call out injustice, bigotry, violent rhetoric, disparaging language, racism, misogyny, abuse of power, and the idolatry of Christian nationalism in their own communities, even if doing so comes at a cost. The cost of not doing so is undeniable, and… Read more

  • The heaviness of this past week SHOULD lead us into Lent

    What a week. The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. (Just sit on that thought for a few seconds.) Read more

  • The need for help

    “I never understood why going to church made you a hypocrite… because nobody goes to church because they’re perfect. If you’ve got it all together, you don’t need to go. You can go jogging with all the other perfect people on Sunday morning. Every time you go to church, you’re confessing again to yourself, to… Read more

  • There is always a remnant

    For years and years I have held to what I have called a “remnant theology.” I haven’t voiced it well, and I know my version of it may not match up with other thoughts. There is always a remnant. While we chase numbers and bigness, that is never a true measure of the Kingdom of… Read more

  • The refusal of repentance, pt. 2

    The American Church falters and it grows more and more obvious that it does so without a clue. My reading to day was from Jeremiah 8, so I will continue on this theme of refusing to repent because it runs parallel to our own day. Read more

  • The refusal of repentance

    It’s probably an apocryphal story, but I do love it: According to a popular story that has circulated for a long time, a well known London newspaper in the early part of the twentieth century (usually stated to be The Times) asked the question “What is wrong with the world?” and received many replies. The… Read more

  • The Feast of St. Stephen

    In my journey from being ordained as a pastor in another tradition to the decision to be ordained as a vocational deacon in the Anglican Church, I have drawn more from the example of Stephen in the Book of Acts. Today is the Feast of St. Stephen. O Glorious Lord, your servant Stephen looked up… Read more

  • Global Christianity

    When we say we have “struggles” with Christianity, or more specifically “evangelical” Christianity, we may then make a mistake and then blame “the Church” as a whole. I come too close to that line far too often. Tish Harrison Warren makes the case for global Christianity: Read more

  • As Advent approaches we are tempted to flood ourselves in light

    By all measures it is probable we can all agree we want 2020 behind us… NOW. Why wait until December 31? We’ve lost loved ones. The world has lost heroes. We’re fighting over masks to slow down a pandemic… People are putting up Christmas lights and trees and flooding their lives with Christmas music and… Read more