A few days ago my dear wife posted this screenshot on the Where True Love Is Facebook page. It generated a lot of discussion, including comments by a guy who had this to say:

Well... he’s also known as GOD THE FATHER... even the Lord’s Prayer starts with Our Father... A...

My beloved and I are mentoring a woman as she deconstructs her understanding of God and sex built over decades of seminary and ministry. One of her recent questions helped me realize the absurdity of the notion that there is a "right" way to experience sexual attractio...

Elijah Walker recently pondered about Jesus, wondering if he bit his nails or hummed as he worked. Wondering what he smelled like.

I wrote this poem some years ago as I considered God's work of rescuing sheep and me, and so I share it now. 

(Oh, and if you don't yet fo...

A woman on Facebook blasted me recently when I added adulterers below a graphic of the various kinds of people Jesus expects us to love. She asked me who I was to try to tell the world what the gospel says, given that I'm not a pastor who committed their life to the te...

!mpact Magazine originally featured this piece in August, 2014. At that time I didn't use inclusive terms for God, and I wasn't yet married to my beloved Dolce. Now I refer to God as "they," and call my beloved my wife, but the truth of this essay still stands.

I met my...

This post originally appeared in !Impact Magazine.

Sermons tend to be largely theoretical, with an occasional anecdote if the preacher wants to illustrate real-life application. But last week, PCUSA Pastor Joshua Noah didn’t simply talk about risk, he dove in, head firs...

This post is from my I Don't Want Them to Go to Hell devotional, which helps the friends and families of LGBTQI+ folx process the news when their loved one comes out to them. Click here to read more about the devotional, and see a sample.

Are not five sparrows sold for...

This post is from my I Don't Want Them to Go to Hell devotional, which helps the friends and families of LGBTQI+ folx process the news when their loved one comes out to them. Click here to read more about the devotional, and see a sample.

Then Jesus’ mother and brothers...

This reflection is an entry from an upcoming devotional about sex. Stay tuned!

Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel (which means, God with us).

(Matthew 1:23 ESV)

Many Christians have a deistic understanding of God, in wh...

This post is an entry from an upcoming devotional on seeking a third way for viewing abortion. The book should be available in September, 2109

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a prof...