This is a chapter I wrote for the SacraSage book, “Why the Church of the Nazarene Should Be Fully LGBTQ+ Affirming.” The book will be released to delegates to the Church of the Nazarene’s General Assembly in June, 2023.

Conventional wisdom says that marriage as we experience it and understand it hasn’t changed much through human history. But marriage has and will continue to evolve and change as human beings wrestle with what kind of loving forms marriage should take.

This is from a chapter I wrote for the Book, “Open and Relational Leadership” (SacraSage Press, 2020)

“And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.”

(G.K. Chesterton)

Sometimes the words that come from your gut, unrehearsed are the most helpful.

Several years ago I did a lengthy interview with Pastor Don Wilson of Christ’s Church in the Valley (CCV) in Peoria, Arizona. The interview was part of my dissertation research for Asbury Seminary. Don is a remarkable and humble guy…

This is an article I wrote for Grace and Peace Magazine

This is an article that I submitted to Grace and Peace Magazine. The idea came from a conversation with a former intern about dealing with difficult people in pastoral ministry.

This is a chapter I wrote for the book, "Missional Discipleship" (Beacon Hill Press: 2013).

This is a chapter I wrote for the book, "Pastoral Practices: A Wesleyan Paradigm." (Beacon Hill Press: 2013).

“Earth’s crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God,

But only he who sees takes off his shoes;

The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.”

(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Re-reading this article I wrote for "Grace and Peace" Magazine over a decade later, it blows my mind how little we all understood about how fractured our country would become. The words seem almost trite and trivial now based on the fissures we now experience. Nonetheless, some of the words seem more timely today than they did in 2011.

I originally wrote this article for Grace and Peace Magazine in 2010. The illustration of the L.A. Clippers and the L.A. Lakers was very appropriate back then but does not hold as much water any longer. As I write this in 2022, the Clippers are in the NBA playoffs and the Lakers are watching from home.

This was a chapter I wrote for the book, "Love Among Us" edited by Thomas J. Oord and Darren Grinder.

I submitted this article to Grace and Peace Magazine in 2009, and much to my surprise, they made it the cover story for their inaugural issue. It was a summary of the findings of my doctoral dissertation at Asbury Theological Seminary.

This was a chapter I wrote for the book, "Postmodern and Wesleyan?: Exploring the Boundaries and Possibilities"