A visit to the ICE office
This week, I got to do church in a way that I hadn’t experienced before. After my morning men’s group meeting, I attended our church’s sanctuary committee meeting, which is exploring ways to support...
View ArticleThe spirit of power, love, and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7)
On Tuesday, the daily office lectionary included this verse from 2 Timothy 1:7: “God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power, love, and self-discipline.” As I contemplated...
View ArticleImagining a World Where Love is the Way (HT Bishop Curry)
In his sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Episcopal Presiding Bishop Michael Curry invites all of us to “imagine a world where love is the way.” So I thought I would take a...
View ArticleWhy Does Holiness Matter?
Holiness is one of the most important and controversial aspects of John Wesley’s 300 year old movement that United Methodism is a part of. I think it would be fair and accurate to say that conservative...
View ArticleNein! A Response to Jason Micheli on Holiness and Christian Sexuality
Jason Micheli is my closest frenemy who isn’t openly Calvinist. I love Jason, but sometimes he writes blog posts that provoke me to send him virulently profane text messages. More than once, it’s...
View ArticleNein! A Response to Jason Micheli On Sanctification and Sex
Jason Micheli is my closest frenemy who isn’t openly Calvinist. I love Jason, but sometimes he writes blog posts that provoke me to send him virulently profane text messages. More than once, it’s...
View ArticleWhy Isn’t Perfection In Love Good Enough For Wesleyan Theology?
As United Methodism approaches our denominational apocalypse at the May 2020 General Conference, I’ve come across a lot of hand-wringing about our theological identity, namely that we don’t have a...
View ArticleResisting Harm Is What Holiness Is For
One way to talk about the tragic division in contemporary American Christianity is to say that it has pitted the ideas of love of God and love of neighbor against each other. Team Family Values tends...
View ArticleLove Letter to A Diva God (A Poem About How Love Is Delightfully Infuriating)
You have been tuning me into your song, For every time my signal fails to transmit And I feel like the man in the silent movie Who has to pantomine but he’s being shown In a world where screaming...
View ArticleCan We Have a Queer, Erotic God?
One of my more mischievous hobbies during the pandemic over the past few days has been getting sucked into the culture wars between evangelicals and queer Christians that have heated up on Twitter. As...
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