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October 2011

October 28, 2011

The Mild Goose Festival?

Two day ago I enjoyed a coffeehouse chat with Gareth Higgins, founder and producer of...

October 21, 2011

What “Is homosexuality sinful?” is really asking

The post you are looking for is here. Sorry for the inconvenience.

October 17, 2011

Group of Methodist Ministers Succumb to Radical Gay Agenda!

Below is the press release that my Important Media Contacts sent me last week, which...

October 13, 2011

Pastor Fired for LINKING to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Article

Two nights ago I got this email: My name is [X], and I am/was a...

October 10, 2011

She Came Out in a Letter–For Worse, and for Better!

This weekend reader Jenni emailed me the below. What better day than National Coming Out...

October 03, 2011

Meet Scott Anderson, Soon To Be the First (Openly) Gay Minister Ordained by Presbyterian U.S.A.

"Our pastor is gay! Our pastor is gay! How can we possibly continue being Christians...

October 02, 2011

How Can You Help Save the Next Jamey Rodemeyer?

Letter o' the day: Hi, John. Thank you for taking your time to read and...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

“Why should any of us choose to be part of a group that condemns us?”

Some of you may recall, from just a couple of weeks back, the story of...

September 23, 2011

Christians and Gay Teen Suicides: “How could anyone be so stupid?”

In the conversations centered around such tragedies as the recent Jamey Rodemeyer suicide (see Christians...

September 20, 2011

Christians and the Blood of Jamey Rodemeyer

Jamey Rodemeyer, above, is a 14-year-old kid from Buffalo, NY, who earlier this week, after...

September 19, 2011

The Inevitability of the Rise of Progressive Christianity

It is inevitable that liberal/progressive Christians will be the majority of Christians in America. We...

September 09, 2011

Before You Shake the Dust Off Your Feet

This essay is included in my book UNFAIR: Christians and the LGBT Question.

September 02, 2011

But Who’ll School the Fool Buell?

Yesterday I posted a piece about Jerry Buell, the high school teacher in Lake County,...

September 01, 2011

Bully for You, Jerry Buell

This week kids across the country, just returning to school, learned that it's perfectly okay...

August 2011

August 29, 2011

Never Feed a Rabid Animal

This weekend just past Kathy Baldock and Lisa Salazar went to Gay Pride at Charlotte,...

August 27, 2011

The Christian Right is Wrong

[polldaddy poll=5539666]Okay, so just to be clear. This image came about relative to an online...

August 24, 2011

From the Christian Mother of a Transgender Young Man

(I last week received this very moving letter.) Dear John, Sometimes I think that being...

August 22, 2011

Think gay is wrong? You’re better than that.

It's perfectly okay with God if a person is gay or lesbian. Perfectly. If you...

August 20, 2011

This animal. This cretin. This travesty. This demon.

This is Tony Perkins. He is much scarier than the Tony Perkins who played Norman...

August 12, 2011

Republican Politician Caught with His Gay Pants Down: Whose Shame Is It?

So this morning we have a story in the The Indianapolis Star about Republican state...

August 09, 2011

“My loving God sends people to hell”

Here's an email just in. I thought I'd throw it up here real quick (with...

August 02, 2011

Captain Israel vs. Foreskin Man

Boys and girls! Meet: Captain Israel is a comic book illustrated and written by Arlen...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

Who Would Dare Argue This Gay Man Isn’t Christian?

If you can come away from reading this still believing that it’s impossible for a...

July 26, 2011

Breivik’s Blood Is Not On Us

The blood of those killed by Anders Breivik is on the hands of Anders Breivik,...

July 19, 2011

“I’m a Straight Christian Woman Raised a Fundamentalist — And I’m In Love With a Woman!”

So here's a letter I got in last week: I have a question, John....

July 17, 2011

“The patriarchal, ego-fortifying, psyche-destroying, soul-crushing, domineering, brain-washing, fear-inducing, manipulative, spiritually abusive world of the fundamentalism I know”

This is a guest post by Christy Caine, who blogs at Leap of Fate. [I...

July 16, 2011

“I Love Christ, But Fundamentalist Christians Destroyed My Life”

(This just in. I think it's safe to say Christianity did not play a positive...

July 11, 2011

Two Crazy Rooms in the Church Lady’s House

So this morning I find email chastising me for yesterday's Remembering the Fundamentalists' True Love...

July 08, 2011

The Absence of God: A Kinder, Gentler Hell?

These days Christians rarely assert that hell is a place where people get burned alive....

July 07, 2011

Right-Wing Christians: 1, Leftist Christians: 0

So early last week The Christian Left (website; blog; Facebook page) took out this Facebook...