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August 2014

August 20, 2014

Heard the news? Gay people don’t exist!

Problem solved!

August 18, 2014

Anti-gay Christians convening today. What are they hiding?

"You are associating your name—your honor, your integrity, your reputation, your entire relationship to morality—with...

August 18, 2014

Vicky Beeching and the “sin” of being gay

"Right-wing pastors preaching that gay people are going to hell because God blah blah Jesus...

August 08, 2014

Pastors of America: Remember Mark Driscoll

A letter to every fundie pastor in America about taking a lesson from Mark Driscoll.

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Do I smell a right-wing Christian rat behind Ohio State’s psych quiz “controversy”?

Here's the whole story behind OCU's "controversial" psychology class.

July 28, 2014

Ohio State University teaches Christians are stupider than atheists

A recent quiz given to Ohio State University students -- and a quiz we'd like...

July 22, 2014

How we remember who we are

A quick lesson in literally everything you need to know about praying.

July 21, 2014

Censorship, threats and book-burning: Christians vs. Gays in Singapore

It's easy enough to think the struggle against Christians seeking to negate LGBT people is...

July 15, 2014

Help: I’m a lesbian whose Christian girlfriend thinks it’s wrong to be gay

Got in the letter below. I answer following it. Dear John, I am currently in...

July 07, 2014

Dear gayophobic Christian parents of America

"Prayer warriors needed to help me fight Satan for the soul of my daughter!" she...

July 03, 2014

Come out of the closet, Secretly Progressive Pastors!

If you are a Secretly Progressive Pastor, now is the time for you to step...

July 01, 2014

A Rhyme for the Time

A person, a company: They've been judged the same! (Dad, Pastor, Investor ... what's in...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

The Supreme Court’s travesty (and Ginsburg’s brilliant dissension)

History will not be kind in its memory of today's Supreme Court ruling, a travesty...

June 27, 2014

Obama invites my guest blogger to the White House

Southern Baptist Pastor Danny Cortez first decided that being gay is no sin. Then Danny's...

June 10, 2014

The Southern Baptist Convention throws transgender people under the bus

On June 10, 2014, delegates ("messengers") to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention...

June 04, 2014

Five e-z steps for calming down fights over abortion

In order to help ratchet back the animosity that so often characterizes our conversations about...

June 02, 2014

Al Mohler and the Southern Baptists’ big gay lie

Why does the SBC so vociferously cling to the first half of its apparently critical...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Southern Baptist pastor accepts his gay son, changes his church.

UPDATE: Pastor Danny and his son Drew were invited to the White House on June...

May 28, 2014

Gay Christian teen beaten up, then saved by REAL Christians

I started to ask myself if I'm being the bigger person, or if I am...

May 27, 2014

Dancing cheek to cheek to cheek?

Dear John, As I read through your interview with a polyamorous woman (1 Man, 2...

May 22, 2014

You might be a dying breed of Christian if you believe that …

If any of these apply to you, you just might be a dying breed of...

May 20, 2014

One man, one woman, one who (like God; like us) is both and more.

In the future gender identity won't matter. Here's a part of why.

May 19, 2014

Is every Christian against gay marriage necessarily a bigot?

The call of today's anti-gay Christians is, "Stop calling us bigots, everyone! Just because we...

May 08, 2014

Is having to pretend at church worth being accepted?

I smile and nod, the same as I did in my high school Bible club,...

May 05, 2014

Methodist bishop dismisses case against lesbian minister

"In dismissing this case, Bishop McLee has chosen to honor the inclusive and justice-affirming intents...

May 01, 2014

To be young, gay, Christian, and afraid

That people want the Bible to say that being gay is a sin tells you...

April 2014

April 21, 2014

Hosanna! Jesus is Risen! Let us bash some gays.

It was Easter morning, and the message these Christian leaders proclaimed to the world was,...

April 16, 2014

Dare to believe that Jesus was God

For now and the next three days, allow yourself to believe that Jesus really was...

April 10, 2014

A church for the unchurched?

Is this a church for the unchurched?

April 03, 2014

85 million unchurched Christians. Is that good?

Eighty-five million American Christians don't go to church. Is that a good thing?