Eight years ago I “knew“ that homosexuality was wrong. I knew all the reasons from my church. I knew the compassionate stance that a...

I tried that iFLY simulated skydiving thing this week. There’s a moment when you’re standing outside the wind tunnel and you have to put...

You are welcome To come pretend To live a lie right with us Just for a while You are welcome But hide the you That’s different The you...

As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born...

I teach at a public middle school. Every Wednesday, I have lunch cafeteria duty. After watching 6th graders “eat,” we follow them out to...

When I was thirteen, I had a green faux leather Living Bible with illustrations of a very 70s Jesus. For whatever reason, I flipped to...

A group I used to follow on social media posted: “I wish Tucker Carlson was more like Rush Limbaugh.” The implication was clear. They...

I attended seminary in the 90s, when American evangelicalism was arguably at its height. On my campus, there was a 30-foot-tall mural of...

Christians, what are you holding onto? The decorations of Christianity are coming down, being boxed up, and put away. Evangelicals, we...

Lately, I've been accused of not being a real Christian or a believer due to some of my views. In fact, this accusation has been thrown...

A couple of months ago, Lia Thomas became the first trans woman to win the NCAA Swimming championship. And everyone seemed to have an...

Recently, an acquaintance posted a statement on social media about what she believed. It was a creed, really. With so much change in the...

You have people in your church that are gay. Depending on how affirming your church is, some of these individuals have integrated this...

I’ve noticed that Christians fight a lot more than we used to. We fight with each other, fight the world, fight the government. Christian...

I was talking with a dear friend about COVID. We disagree on almost all things controversial these days: The election LGBTQ issues...

As a public school teacher, every year I am forced to work with 130 ten and eleven-year-olds. I say “forced,” because no matter how I...

One of my favorite classes in seminary was Christology. It was the systematic biblical study of the person of Jesus Christ (that’s a...

The lake awakens before dawn. Honking geese land on sheets of glass breaking the tension of the morning calm. A buck rummages for wild...

You remember the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It’s one of the most memorable ten minutes of the film. Indiana Jones has to...

It’s been almost a year since my church let me go. I served as a part time associate/assistant/connections pastor for nearly fourteen...