Derek Penwell
The Good Men Project
Middletown, KY, United States
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Past articles by Derek:
Why Does Good Friday Feel Like Such Crappy Parenting?
Does god have to trick Godself into thinking that justice has been satisfied by setting up some elaborate rube Goldberg forgiveness machine? → Read More
Pro Tip: Christians Don't Get to Check Out of Politics
There can never be any state of affairs in which it is acceptable for those who wear the name of Jesus to ignore politics. → Read More
On Being a Smartass for Jesus
I would like to suggest that Jesus-as-verbal-ninja may be Jesus at his most loving. → Read More
Jesus: Forever Mixing Morality and Politics
Any follower of his has no stake in propping up a system that punishes the most vulnerable. → Read More
Christians Need to Stop Just Believing in Jesus and Start Living Like Him
The traditional protestant disconnect between faith and works is pushing people away. → Read More
Millennials and the Key to Mainline Decline
It appears we've gotten this often-maligned generation wrong. → Read More
What If Covid-19 Is the Thing That Saves Us?
What if our enforced time of separation opens our eyes and ears to a world we were conveniently able to avoid when going about our daily lives as we chose was something we took for granted? → Read More
Manager Mint: A Boss’s Guide to Killing the Souls of the People You Work With
Don’t believe me? Just ask the people who call you boss. → Read More
The Church Ought to Be the Seat of the Resistance
A manifesto. → Read More
Why You May Well Be a Racist (Even Though You Don’t Feel Like One)
Feeling strongly that you’re not a racist isn’t enough. → Read More
Abusers Don't Get To Define Abuse and Racists Don't Get To Define Racism
Why do we have to take the word of a racist that they’re not racist … all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding? → Read More
People Visit Museums
Where has our "look but don't touch" approach to life gotten us? → Read More
The Kind of Wall We Should Be Building
It is about dividing us and the our oppressors. → Read More
Whatever Happened to Compassion?
Come on, Jesus expects more from us! → Read More
On Bravery, Dancing, and the Example of Little Girls
What my daughter taught me about doing the right thing, even in the face of fear. → Read More
Doing the Work of Resistance
A pastor answers five questions. → Read More
Why Your Criticism of Politics on Facebook May Mean You’re Part of the Problem
Perhaps, the people who don't want others to complain have nothing to complain about. → Read More
A Short Rant on the Conceit of Always Being a Moderate
Why you may be all wrong because you think nobody can be all right. → Read More
Taking Too Much for Granted
Instead, we need to exercise our moral imaginations. → Read More
The Heartbreaking Ballad of White Evangelicals . . . I mean, Aunt Linda
What happens when everybody else can see what you can’t see? → Read More