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August 2013

August 02, 2013

To Pro-Lifers Who Believe Adoption is Always the Answer

On the group blog for Unfundamentalist Christians, we have published UCer Mindy Carney's To Pro-Lifers Who...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Why am I still a Christian?

Got this in last week: Hi John, I'm writing to share a problem I have...

July 26, 2013

Yay for the new day’s new way!

This week The Atlantic ran a story, The Rise of the Christian Left in America, the...

July 22, 2013

Just Like You (From a gay Christian to an anti-gay Christian)

The poem below is a collaborative effort between me and Ford, a friend of mine....

July 17, 2013

8 Ways Christians Fail to Be Christian

I, a Christian, feel that we Christians too often fail in these eight ways: 1....

July 16, 2013

Anti-gay Christianity claims another life

This is Carlos Vigil, of Valencia County, New Mexico, just south of Albuquerque: Here's another...

July 15, 2013

Affirming: Yay! Welcoming: Pray.

The other day I tweeted, The diff b/w LGBT affirming & LGBT welcoming is the...

July 11, 2013

If pride is a sin, color me guilty

Remember Colby Martin, the young pastor whose story I shared in Pastor Fired for LINKING to...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

A spontaneous prayer about the DOMA ruling

As you're probably by now aware, today the Supreme Court declared a 1996 law denying...

June 20, 2013

An open letter to Exodus International’s super-remorseful Alan Chambers

Dear Mr. Chambers: I am writing in regard to your apology yesterday for all the...

June 12, 2013

Betraying the Spirit: How the Christian Right Gets the Bible Wrong

I just released UNFAIR: Christians and the LGBT Question, the much revised and updated version...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Dan Savage’s call to arms (and shout-out to me)

During his appearance yesterday on HuffPost Live to discuss his runaway bestseller American Savage, Dan...

May 24, 2013

Homosexuality? Hell? You be the judge.

The rational Christian must admit that no one actually, in an objective sense, knows if...

May 16, 2013

Unfundamentalist Christians

A while back I responded to repeated requests that I articulate my personal theology by...

May 10, 2013

A Methodist to Their Madness

I’ll never forget October 15, 2011. That’s the day I received in my email this...

May 07, 2013

What would Jesus do if invited to a gay wedding?

What would Jesus do if invited to a gay wedding? The answer is as close...

May 06, 2013

How to make a Christian grumpy

Coffee cup fresh in hand, this morning I settled in to start reading Treatise on...

May 01, 2013

Thumbs up to the evolutionists

If you're just joining us, this past Friday I published True or False: Dinosaurs Lived...

April 2013

April 28, 2013

A creationist fights back

A believer in creationism did not at all appreciate my post True or False: Dinosaurs...

April 25, 2013

World War Gay is Over!

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

April 23, 2013

Can a man act too effeminate?

Hi John, I'm an extremely effeminate (not to the point of transgenderism), homosexual man, and...

April 22, 2013

Anti-Gay Christians: What’s in Your Wallet?

The reason conservative Christians invariably give for asserting that homosexuality is an egregious sin against...

April 18, 2013

An Open Apology From Christians to Gay People

[This post originally appeared on my old blog at JohnShore.com, from where it was shared...

April 17, 2013

Kicked out of our church: How I learned the “Christian” view of gays (and what my wife did with that information)

After my wife Catherine and I had spent six years as members of the very...

April 16, 2013

What today’s evangelicals are (still) telling gay people

Once upon a time the evangelical Christian's typical response to homosexuality was that gay people...

April 15, 2013

Our Devastated Mountaintop (sweatshop edition)

[You guys killed it last time we did this. Just amazing work, all of it....

April 14, 2013

Do this easy thing or stop complaining about gun violence

The White House wants Americans to read this, which they sent out Thursday: Hello, all—...

April 08, 2013

An Angel Learns to Judge

Professor Malachi, Dean of Discernment and Judgment at The University of Heaven, tapped a file...

March 2013

March 26, 2013

An ex-fundy responds to the question, “How could anyone attend BJU”?

Recently (via such posts as A Christianity to Make Satan Proud, Pastor Marc Monte: Satan...

March 18, 2013

Six Things to Know About Sexual Abuse and Forgiveness

People who are sexually abused are very often, however subtly or overtly, pressured to forgive...