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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...

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 22, 2020

The Theology of White Shooters

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

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 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 30, 2020

It’s not about George Floyd…

For those who can’t understand why the entire nation is violently protesting the death of...

May 29, 2020

The Theology of Riot

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

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 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 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 03, 2020

The Resurrection Will Not Be Televised

In the year 1970, The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron released a pair of related...

April 01, 2020

Is #MeToo Dead?

Joe Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee. Tara Reade has accused him of sexual...