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Amity, Jaimie, and I Poured Our Hearts Into These Albums
Three albums dropped today from Amity Grace, JaiBird, and me—and each one tells a powerful story. Amity’s Dreamscapes and Dragons captures the beauty of her healing journey through orchestral, theatrical sounds. JaiBird’s Please Don’t Feed the Dark dives deep into poetic parables born from pain and hope. And my album, Holy Ruckus, is an upbeat,…
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New Hour Long Spontaneous Song: Hi, I Love You
During a recent inner healing session, a friend had a vision of God being proud of all his creation and the enemy trying to mess with it. I used this as the seeds for a spontaneous song during worship last night, which grew into an hour long story of…
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The Devil’s Bargain: When Christians Trade Christ for Power
What happens when we trade Jesus’ way for political power? Drawing from Jesus’ temptation in the desert and Revelation’s warning about beasts that look like lambs, this article explores how the Church can be deceived into following false messiahs—and how we must return to the Sermon on the Mount before it’s too late.
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Oil, Wine, and the Death of Compassion
When kingdoms embrace power over compassion, the poor always pay the price. As America passes legislation that benefits the wealthy while stripping aid from the vulnerable, the third horseman of Revelation reminds us that this is not a new story—but a repeated cycle. Christians must resist aligning with injustice and instead stand with the poor,…
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A Peace Worth Wrestling For: Q&A on Jesus-Centric Pacifism
I’ve long identified as a Jesus-centric pacifist, which often challenges people’s assumptions about faith and violence. In this Q&A, I respond to honest questions from friends wrestling with real fears, ethical dilemmas, and the meaning of true peacemaking in a violent world. From defending loved ones without resorting to aggression, to understanding Jesus’ prophetic anger…
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Jesus Didn’t Prophesy This: The Tragedy of Christian Zionism
Despite growing up in the church, I never inherited the obsession some Christians have with Israel and the end times. Now, decades later as a pastor and theologian, I still don’t understand it—because this theological system isn’t really found in the Bible. In this post, I explore how modern Christian Zionism has shaped American eschatology…
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The Church at the Border: A Call to Compassion
I’d like to specifically speak to the church’s heart on migrants for a moment, because I’m struggling to square up some of the wider church’s actions and beliefs on migrants with Jesus. While I understand that no country can simply have open borders, that the crimes anyone commits should be justly processed, and that migrants…
