The conspiracy of silence around sexual misconduct in the church is as much an evil work as the abuse itself, writes the Rev. Morgan Guyton.

Pope Francis is my problematic fave. I’m sure he’s exhibited plenty of personal moral failures in the Roman church’s ongoing sexual abuse scandal, though I don’t think I could have done better if I were in charge of a complicate…

The Rev. Morgan Guyton thinks Serena Williams got a raw deal from umpire Carlos Ramos at the 2019 British Open, and he wants more people – especially white men – to pay more attention to how women of color are treated.

Tennis has always been an aristocrats’ game. It’s like golf. You take your prospective business clients to play tennis at the country club when you need to close a deal. If you’ve really made it to the top, your backyard will have a t…

Himself a survivor of church-based sexual misconduct, the Rev. Morgan Guyton asserts that the closed-in hierarchical system of the Roman Catholic Church needs to be radically changed to protect children from abuse.

[CN: church-based sexual trauma, some brief description] It’s getting hard to keep quiet about the cynical gamesmanship going on amidst the far-right cardinals in the latest iteration of the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal. As a survivor of chur…

The late musician Lou Reed had an insight into the transcendence of union with God that the Rev. Morgan Guyton finds to be a guidepost on the way to God’s kingdom.

Admittedly I put the word “evangelicals” in the title of this blog post as click-bait, to some degree. I’ve been so busy trying to start a coffeehouse that I’ve blogged only one other time this month so I need to make up for my …

“Not coloring outside the lines” results in a ticket straight to hell for any minor infraction, and it’s time for this mindset to be discarded in favor of God’s boundless mercy, writes the Rev. Morgan Guyton.

At my Thursday men’s group last week, somebody brought up a song from the punk band Dead Milkmen called “Methodist Coloring Book.” I haven’t been able to get the song out of my head. The chorus reveals an ugly caricature of the …