I'm Anthony, a Christian pastor and theologian reclaiming Scripture for love & liberation. Affirming. Feminist. Antiracist. Universalist.
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The Perch
What I Did on My Summer Sabbatical
Sabbatical report: a wedding, a luminous lagoon, Star Wars burnout, and a plea for strength-training advice.
Essay
Misused Scripture: Exodus 14:14, "The Lord Will Fight For You"
"Let go and let God" is a good way to end up on the bottom of the sea. In Exodus 14, the passive reading survives for only one verse.
Book Review
If You Want to Change Minds, Change Lives
A review of Sarah Stein Lubrano's Don't Talk About Politics — a book about how minds change through action, relationship, and infrastructure, and what that means for church, discipleship, and where I put my words.
misused scripture
Why Did God Kill Ananias and Sapphira? (Misused Scripture)
The text never says God killed them. What killed Ananias and Sapphira is stranger — and closer to home — than a smiting.
linklove
July Link Love
What I've been reading and watching last month.
Essay
Strangers and Beggars Are from Zeus
Review of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026)
Ministry
16 Lessons from 16 Years of Ministry
July Edition of The Perch
The system is greedy on our behalf
On the second of July, a few blocks from Independence Hall, the bell at Philadelphia's Christ Church rang out more than fifty times,
Essay
Jesus Is Lord, and I Voted for the Convicted Felon
The lectionary hands us the seven woes this week. Read next to a yard full of “convicted felon” bumper stickers and “Jesus is Lord” signs, they land on American white Christian nationalism.
autobiography
The Canoe in the Living Room
On hiding places, faulty antennas, and better questions
misused scripture
Misused Scripture: Genesis 1.27 Male and Female He Created Them
Does Genesis 1:27, 'male and female he created them,' prove a strict gender binary? A closer look at merism, the Hebrew, and what an ancient creation poem is actually for.
The Perch
The Perch: June 2026 I Didn’t Wait Until I Was Empty
Our culture clings to a stubborn conviction about rest: that a person must purchase rest through exhaustion.