Following Jesus is a Liquid Dance
As we conclude this year-long experiment in respectful conversations, I’m grateful for the ways my faithful beloveds have responded to the post about my…
Following Jesus to the Altar: One Pentecostal’s Reflection
Bearing the weight of a grief I couldn’t name, one Sunday I tarried at the altar, a classical Pentecostal phrase that involves praying mightily…
Advice from a Pentecostal to the LDS: Fly the Freak Flag!
It’s a true honor to respond to prominent LDS scholar Robert Millet, dean emeritus of religious education at Brigham Young University, the flagship of…
Wake Up, Everybody! Black Christian Experience in (and out) of Church
When I’m asked to respond to a scholar-practitioner of black church life, my first inclination is to sit down, shut up, listen carefully, and…
Methodism and the Liberative Heart of a God Who is Love
If Pietists and Pentecostals are like cousins, then certainly Pentecostals and Methodists are even closer in family formation. After all, it was the revivalist…
The Heart of the Matter
Hello, cousin! That’s the first thing that came to mind when I read this month’s “A Week in the Life of a Pietist,” by…
Conscience of a Baptist
My mother grew up a Southern Baptist. She was born a stone’s throw from the small clapboard church in Shiloh, Tennessee, where she first…
On Relationality in Reformed Christian Faith
Dr. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson writes with such clarity, humility, and tenderness about his adopted Reformed tradition that in reading the post I thought, for a…
When the Canterbury Trail Leads to Kampala
I once met a retired Ugandan Anglican Bishop by the name of Christopher Ssenyonjo. Bishop Ssenyonjo was (and remains) an outspoken advocate of LGBTQI…
Mennonites: Resistance as Witness?
When Mennonites, Amish and other Anabaptists are considered in historical perspective, they are classified as radical reformers, a family of dissidents whose relentless criticisms…