What if we all just blocked Trump on Twitter?
I want to start a campaign to block Donald Trump on Twitter. Not just block him, but make a commitment not to share his tweets, not to comment on them, and not to let them be the center of my universe....
View ArticleWhy I hate the word “content”
I usually hate words whenever they become trendy, whenever it seems like people are saying them because they want others to know that they’re in the know. But the word “content” is uniquely vile to me...
View ArticleDonald Trump doesn’t need your tax dollars like NOLA Wesley does
There are two days left in 2016. That means you have two days left to find worthy causes to support with tax-deductible donations that will decrease the amount that you are required by the IRS to give...
View ArticleHypersensitive college professor asks hypersensitive president-elect to...
First Things senior editor and Emory English professor Mark Bauerlein is intimidated by his college students. He says that on his campus, “Nobody wants to provoke others, so everyone carries an...
View ArticleWhat if Franklin Graham was right about God’s role in Trump’s election?
When the news broke of Russian interference in the presidential election, Franklin Graham responded with a widely panned tweet asking “Do you think it was the Russians interfering with the election or...
View ArticleWhy I wish Donald Trump would read my book
If I’ve learned one thing in the year since I released my first book, it’s that I’ve got more Donald Trump in me than I’d like to admit. My particular version of mediocre white male messianism was to...
View ArticleWhy white people should stop celebrating Cinco de Mayo
One of the most transformative moments of my life happened in Mexico. My friend Kevin and I had gone backpacking there the summer of 1998 after my second year in college because it was cheap and it...
View ArticleGreg Gianforte is what toxic Christianity looks like
“It would be one thing for a candidate to throttle and hit a reporter, but to do so in the presence of other journalists, in this case a crew from the Fox News Channel, is just plain reckless.” This...
View ArticleWhy Toxic Christianity is a Threat to Our Planet’s Survival
Today, Donald Trump announced that the US is withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, an international agreement which seeks to set goals for reducing each country’s pollution and impact on climate...
View ArticleHow Should Christians Respond to the Demise of Donald Trump?
How should Christians respond to Donald Trump’s meltdown? My first instinct is schadenfreude. Because 81% of my fellow white evangelicals voted for him. And that means if he goes down in flames, then...
View ArticleA Response to Seedbed’s Five Marks of Theological Liberalism
I would not call myself a liberal Christian. I self-identify as a progressive evangelical, which is to say that I fall on the progressive end of a narrower spectrum whose boundaries I take seriously...
View ArticleWhen God Won’t Let Me Go Off On The Evangelicals
I was planning to go off on the evangelicals in this blog post. After First Baptist Church of Dallas went all-in on their nationalist idolatry, releasing an official CCLI Christian praise song called...
View ArticleWhat Does Winning Look Like for Christians?
Before Donald Trump became president, he promised that if he were elected, Americans would “win so much [they] would get tired of winning.” After the failure of US Senate to repeal and replace the...
View ArticleThe spiritual discipline of backing down
As I write this, the world has been taken hostage by a high-stakes game of chicken between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, two men whose insecurities and cults of personality depend upon projecting...
View ArticleHow Satan wins in Charlottesville and elsewhere
Last night, a group of white nationalists carrying tiki torches took over the UVA Lawn in Charlottesville, Virginia, the place where I lived my fourth year in college. This picture shows a group of...
View ArticleRoy Moore: The Ultimate Test For Evangelicals
It really is starting to feel like something supernatural and apocalyptic is at foot in our country during the Trump Era. So many secret sexual sins are being publicly exposed. It’s like God is testing...
View ArticleTop 10 Posts From 2017
Well it’s time again to share the top blog posts over the past year. I’m going to leave out the ones that viralized because they were trashy click-bait. Before you read further, I need to give one last...
View ArticleOn Playing Chicken With Nuclear War
Donald Trump has a bigger nuclear button than Kim Jong Un. And our global politics continue to resemble an elementary school playground. I think I get what Trump is trying to do. He’s trying to...
View ArticleRod Dreher, Karin McQuillan, and the Evaporation of White Taboo
For the past several decades, it has been taboo for white people to make disparaging generalizations about people of other races. We call it racism when somebody does that. Because of this taboo, we...
View ArticleControl: The Greatest Temptation of Satan
One of my favorite songs by the dark industrial synthpop band VNV Nation is “Control” from the album Automatic. When I got to see them live in New Orleans this fall, I screamed out several dozen times...
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