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Aug 13, 2017

Reflection/Devotional for #Charlottesville

Instead of a sermon, here is a reflection & prayer around #Charlottesville. It is slightly modified from an upcoming advent devotional. But it is too timely to wait. Can we fully acknowledge the rottenness in our spiritual bones, in the deep depths of who we are that none can see…

Devotional

2 min read


Aug 2, 2017

We’re Killing Strangers, So We Don’t Kill The Ones That We Love

(Written May 2017) What could ‘Stand Your Ground’ mean, to a resistor? When I think of the recent scandal at my seminary, my initial reaction is that we, the seminary community, must ‘stand our (moral) ground’. We must make it clear what moral ground me stand on, and we must…

Racism

9 min read


Aug 2, 2017

Can the Unjust Accuse God?

This week in class we are reading The Trial of God by Elie Wiesel. It is a book that I read in high school. Overall, Elie Wiesel has profoundly influenced my theology, bringing in at least one major paradigm shift. Because I am not sure that my class will want…

Holocaust

5 min read


Aug 2, 2017

Breaking the Same Old Ground | Love Is Just a Car Crash Away

As my course returns to Nobody Cries When We Die, I find myself again coming to the same lyrics I considered the first time: “Don’t know if I can open up / I’ve been opened enough / Don’t know if I can open up / I’m not a birthday present.”…

Christianity

3 min read


Mar 5, 2017

Not Your Respectable Solidarity

Theologian Beverly Mitchell takes up the heavy task researching both black slavery in the United States and the Jewish Holocaust of Nazi Germany, drawing connections of practice between the two, and interpreting import of it all. Of utmost importance to Mitchell, and to me, is that human dignity is indestructible…

Music

3 min read

Not Your Respectable Solidarity
Not Your Respectable Solidarity

Feb 16, 2017

“Wight Spider” | Black Skins, White Masks

“For [the black colonized person] there is only one way out, and it leads to the white world.” This week, I am faced with this quote by Frantz Fanon. He’s talking about a psychological struggle for equality, which is also a struggle of decolonizing the mind. So badly, I want…

Marilyn Manson

4 min read


Feb 13, 2017

“The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles” | Nobody Cries When We Die (Ch1–4)

Over the next 4 months, I will be posting weekly devotions based in the lyrics of the shocking Marilyn Manson. These devotions will also engage with my weekly course readings for “Christian Mission & Ethics in a Violent World” In the song Mephistopheles of Los Angeles, Marilyn Manson repeats the…

Marilyn Manson

4 min read


Jan 26, 2017

An AntiCreed: Against Christian Supremacy

Christian supremacy — The belief that Christian people and Christian ideas are superior to people and ideas from all other religious, spiritual, and/or non-religious backgrounds, and thus Christian people and ideas should dominate society. (reworked from the definition of “white supremacy” on Dictionary.com) This includes the centering of the theological…

Christianity

3 min read


Jan 9, 2017

Scars, #FuckThisShit

“Healer”…That’s the metaphor that always seemed most fitting for being a pastor, to me. To provide healing. It sounds positive. Happy. Pain transformed into No Pain. But can we pastors really do that? Is that really the best way to think about it? “ Time may dull But will never heal SCARS…” What healing can I bring to people…

Christianity

1 min read


Dec 25, 2016

Nothing, #FuckThisShit 2016

After being overheard saying that I’m not a Christ-o-centric person, I was asked what a Spirit-centric Christianity would look like…I didn’t have a good answer at the time. I mostly think the issue is that in raising Jesus above humanity, Christianity often lowers the rest of humanity. Here’s an example…

Christianity

3 min read

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