02 May Behind the Veil of Grace
We were in Switzerland and I was too wasted to find my way home. We had hitchhiked up the mountain to grab some beers, and it was all good fun until a guy named Josh turned to me and asked what I was running from...
08 Apr Religious Freedom Laws Gone Wrong
It’s no surprise that after marriage equality passed last year, there’s now a backlash against LGBT people in states across the country. Conservatives feel their long-held positions of power slipping through their fingers as the public shifts to support equality for LGBT people. They’re grasping...
31 Mar A Better Conversation About LGBT People In The Church
My recent conversation with Wesley Hill at City Church got me thinking about all things gay celibacy. Wes was one of the founders of the blog, Spiritual Friendship, which hosts the most prominent group of LGBT Christians who believe marriage is between a man and...
04 Feb How I Was Moved To Support Same-Sex Marriage In The Church
Your beliefs don’t shift in an instant. We research and agonize, bouncing between hope and despair, until one day we hear ourselves say something a former version of ourselves would never have said. That’s how I came to support same-sex marriage in the church....
10 Dec Grace in the Crisis of Authority
I first encountered the Protestant crisis of authority my senior year in college. When I realized Christianity contained Baptist and not the other way around, it occurred to me that maybe the tent was wider than I initially envisioned. The crisis was agitated when I...
19 Nov Reflections On Purity Culture: Why We Need Another Way
During my late teens and early twenties, I was involved in a ministry that I tend to speak well of because the people were so wonderful and they loved me so deeply. We spent most of our time talking about Jesus, and even in the...