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July 2011

July 06, 2011

Obey Rob Bell In His Most Recent Sermon: Give It Up For Me

So today I got an email from HuffPo notifying me that they'd published my Time...

July 06, 2011

“Gays Can Be Priests; But Marriage Should Be Between a Man and a Woman.”

Below is an email I got in last week. I'm sharing it with you (with...

July 04, 2011

A coming out letter to her family

A young woman has shared with me this letter to her family. What better day...

July 01, 2011

Gays and Hell: How Can God Break The Great Commandment?

A sane Christian must admit that no one actually, in an objective sense, knows if...

June 2011

June 29, 2011

Progressive Christians: It’s Awful to Waffle!

I like progressive Christians. They're a fun bunch: witty, conversational, tending toward expressive body language....

June 26, 2011

“I Came Out to My Evangelical Family. And Guess What?”

On January 2 I received this email: John Shore, I'm not sure who you are...

June 09, 2011

Come Out of the Woods, Christian Soldiers: World War Gay Has Ended

Unaware that their cause had been lost, a small number of Japanese soldiers deep in...

June 05, 2011

Is God’s Justice Different Than Ours? Hell, No.

Foundational to the reasoning informing Francis Chan's videommercial for his new book about hell is...

June 03, 2011

A PCUSA Lay Minister Stays in the Closet

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

May 2011

May 27, 2011

Okay, Imagine Jesus as the Door Guy at a Club …

(This is basically the print version of the point I made in my little Theology...

May 26, 2011

Give ‘Em Hell

If we started down the road of questioning the validity of hell, who knows what...

May 24, 2011

Why asking “Is hell real?” is like asking, “Do unicorns speak Leprechaun?”

Lots of Christians today are asking the question, "Is hell real?" But that's like a...

May 21, 2011

What Francis Chan (And His Ilk) Get So Terribly Wrong About Hell

If evangelicals are serious about wanting to save people from hell, they need to stop...

May 17, 2011

“No Heaven For You!”

Who wants to be in a relationship because they're afraid of what will happen to...

May 10, 2011

Mr. Wallis and His Big Gay Waffle

So it turns out Jim Wallis of the Sojourners supports the legalization of gay marriage....

May 09, 2011

An Open Letter to Famous Progressive Christian Jim Wallis

I'm sure Mr. Jim Wallis is not aware that someone highly placed in his Sojourners...

April 2011

April 28, 2011

Apologizing to Atheists: What’s the Big Idea?

Here's what I was thinking with my letter of apology from evangelicals to atheists.

April 28, 2011

A Letter Evangelicals Might Use to Apologize to Atheists

If evangelicals ever wanted to apologize to atheists, this is the letter they could use.

April 14, 2011

Jesus: “Why Do I Allow Evil to Exist?”

Theologians and religious philosophers of every stripe are forever bumping their heads up against the...

April 03, 2011

Scott Anderson’s Objection Based on Conscience

This is Scott Anderson's “scruple,” or objection based on conscience, to Article G-6.0106b of the...

March 2011

March 29, 2011

Does Home Schooling Make the Grade?

Home schooling: Good? Bad?

March 24, 2011

My Belief About Hell in Exactly 50 Words

Lately people have lately been asking my opinion on hell. So here it is: The...

March 22, 2011

“God, Why Did You Make Me This Way? Why Did You Give Me This Life?”

Will we ever run out of fools pleased to confuse the purity of their own...

March 11, 2011

A Christian Woman Asks: “Is Marrying a Non-Christian a Sin?”

Is it a sin for a Christian to marry a non-Christian? One woman is wondering.

March 06, 2011

Watch Out Bristol, Mike Huckabee is Gunning for “Privileged” Unwed Mothers

The writing of Michael Rowe is wondrous to let flow unto your brain. Michael is...

February 2011

February 23, 2011

“Help: I Want to Come Out to My Loving Evangelical Father”

How does a young Christian woman tell her father the one thing about her that...

January 2011

January 26, 2011

“Welcoming and Affirming”: Like Lawrence Welk Break Dancing?

What exactly might a church mean by "Welcoming and Affirming"?

January 08, 2011

A Christian Transgender Asks: “Must I Reject My Religion?”

On her way to self-discovery, a Christian transgendering person wonders how God sees her.

December 2010

December 13, 2010

The REAL Reason Christians (and Other People) Get So Crazy About Gays

The real reason people get so insane about homosexuality doesn't have anything to do with...

November 2010

November 14, 2010

Church Authority, Smurch Schmashmority

Some guy with great hair and a magnetic personality heads a mega-church, and I'm supposed...