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September 2020

September 23, 2020

Will Ruth Bader Ginsberg Go To Heaven?

Over the past few days, since the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...

September 13, 2020

Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?

for Aloma In the 1989 animated film, All Dogs Go to Heaven, the age old...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

The Theology of White Shooters

You are a person of color. You live here. You have always lived here. A...

August 13, 2020

I Believe in Jesus. But Do I Believe in God?

For progressive Christians, Christ is easy. The Beatitudes. The Golden Rule. Love, grace and acceptance. ...

July 2020

July 29, 2020

Why BLM is More Christian Than Its Evangelical Opponents

If you are reading this “Progressive Christian” blog, chances are you already know that Christianity...

July 18, 2020

John Lewis, and the Theology of #GoodTrouble

"What does it profit a great nation to conquer the world, only to lose its...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?

for Aloma In the 1989 animated film, All Dogs Go to Heaven, the age old...

June 22, 2020

I Believe in Jesus. But Do I Believe in God?

For progressive Christians, Christ is easy. The Beatitudes. The Golden Rule. Love, grace and acceptance....

June 20, 2020

Why Priests Rape

I woke up today to see a friend had shared yet another account of a...

June 15, 2020

God is Not a Boy Name

Just this past week, on June 12, Twitter theologian and activist Robbie Hurlocker found himself...

June 07, 2020

Seven Rules for Raising White Children

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,...

June 04, 2020

Police Action: How One Riot-Prone Town Kept the Peace in Difficult Times

We all make choices. We reap what we sow. In the ten days since George...

June 01, 2020

When Police Lie…

First, the facts: On Monday, May 25, 2020, in the Powderhorn neighborhood of South Minneapolis,...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

The Theology of Riot

First, you must ask yourself, did Jesus sin? Forget about all the revolts and uprisings...

May 23, 2020

Activism and Bereavement: a Reflection on Healing

By the rivers of Babylon— there we sat down and there we wept when we...

May 23, 2020

Mental and Spiritual Health in the Age of Pandemic

Things I know about me: I know how to listen so that you know you've...

May 16, 2020

“I Appreciate You”–What Generation Z Can Teach Us About Gratitude, Theology and Life

Change is coming. Millennials are no longer the younger generation. Generation Z is here to...

May 16, 2020

Your Feelings Don’t Change the Virus. Wash Your Hands.

Here are the CDC Guidelines for masking, social distancing, hand hygiene, etc. There is...

May 09, 2020

Why Not Call a Lynching a Lynching?  

Deliver me, O LORD from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue...

May 05, 2020

Who’s Behind the “ReOpen” protests?

“ReOpen” protests seem to be all over the news. Guntoting activists storming state capitals. Thugs...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

Your Neighbor is an Idiot–Love Them Anyway

A few years back, I attended a sermon by Reverend Mark Stringer, a Unitarian Universalist...

April 26, 2020

Grieving “America”: Trump’s HHS Now Officially Allows Doctors to Discriminate Against LGBTQ+ Patients

I Snopesed it. I wasn’t looking for facts, because the facts were so unbelievable I...

April 25, 2020

How One Man’s COVID-19 Protest May Have Shut Down a Right-Wing Evangelical Extremist Church

It’s not news that the Evangelical church and America’s political right wing were wed long...

April 20, 2020

Jesus and the Boomers: a History

Imagine for a moment you were born into the one of the first few years...

April 18, 2020

Jesus and Violence: Three Biblical Stories on How to Start a Revolution

Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have...

April 14, 2020

Evangelicals Are Suing to Lose: a Primer on Jesus and the Constitution in the Age of COVID-19

Today, I opened my news app to a story about California churches suing state officials...

April 13, 2020

The God Delusion, or How I Reconcile My Faith With My Degree

I was once promoted to three-star general in the Australian Army, and Lord Viceroy of...

April 11, 2020

Unraveling Easter, and the Conflicting Gospel Stories

You are in a courtroom. The defense attorney is grilling the victim’s friend. Apparently, at...

April 09, 2020

The Theology of Anthony Fauci, Donald Trump’s COVID-19 Expert

How does a lapsed Catholic and scientifically literate scion of an immigrant family become not...

April 04, 2020

Share This Holy Week Social Distancing Challenge!

Over the next eight days, the Christian world will find its way out of the...