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June 2015

June 30, 2015

Breaking Down Southern Baptist Rhetoric Against Same-Sex Marriage

While Southern Baptists have been vocally repenting of their support for slavery and Jim Crow...

June 28, 2015

Will Someone Please Tell Christians That the LGBT War Is Over?

Christians across the country refuse to accept the implications of the Supreme Court decision. Like...

June 12, 2015

A Transgender Christian Loses Her Church but Keeps Her Faith

Because I live “simply open” about who and what I am, at some point when...

June 10, 2015

A Christian Response to the Transgender Discussion

Caitlyn Jenner’s public transformation on the cover of Vanity Fair last week forcefully pulled the...

June 05, 2015

The Duggars: Privilege and Personal Irresponsibility

Nothing has laid bare how obviously conservatives’ own privilege trumps the “personal responsibility” they demand...

June 02, 2015

Again: Raping Angels and Being Gay Are Not the Same Thing

There is perhaps no more abused passage in the Bible for condemning gays and lesbians...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

Welcome to the Duggar’s world of Independent Fundamental Baptists

The Duggars belong to the nearly 8-million strong Independent Fundamental Baptists denomination, the most toxic...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Southern Baptists, Racism, and Biblical Inerrancy

While Southern Baptists believe that scripture is “truth without any mixture of error” it is...

April 21, 2015

To Christians who support RFRA laws: Grow Up!

Are you as weary as I am in hearing all these well-to-do, materially prosperous and...

April 07, 2015

This Is How Bigotry Dies (To Thunderous Tantrums)

Conservatives everywhere seem to think active-state liberalism is analogous to an intergalactic weakening of the...

February 2015

February 09, 2015

Christians and Spank Culture: How and Why to Stop It

Spanked throughout my own childhood, I wasn't taught anything about non-violent parenting until, curious about...

February 08, 2015

Progressive Christianity won’t give you measles

Last week evangelical blogger Samuel James wrote a post in which he compared the anti-vaccine...

February 04, 2015

Strachan & Fischer’s Big Gay Slip’N Slide

One of the canards of the anti-LGBT industry is the tired argument that accepting LGBT...

February 02, 2015

Can Christians and Muslims be friends?

Can Christians and Muslims be friends? For Mennonite missionary David Shenk, the answer is not...

January 2015

January 24, 2015

Must “American Sniper” Chris Kyle be seen as immoral?

Criticizing a soldier for seeming emotionally detached from his work from the vantage point of...

January 23, 2015

Eliminating evangelical double-speak about salvation

What if salvation was experienced as a process of growth in love, rather than as...

January 14, 2015

Did Jesus speak more about Hell than about Heaven?

To re-prioritize Jesus’ entire message around eternal conscious torment in hell is either alarmingly ignorant...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

The Misuse of Scripture (Southern Baptists seem to lead the way)

Our biases (and we all have them) influence how we appropriate Scripture for good or...

December 05, 2014

Actual War on Black People Distracting from Fictional War on Christmas

Jesus, a brown-skinned transient and known practitioner of civil disobedience executed by a brutal police...

December 01, 2014

A Christmas Play Gone Awry (or maybe not)

When we turn away from a world in need, from the cries of creation for...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

Last night our President sounded like Jesus

"And pray also for the Pharisees and the Herodians, the Tea Partiers and the conservative...

November 01, 2014

What the hell is Southern Baptist leader Al Mohler fired up about now?

This is not just dripping with irony. It's gushing with it.

October 2014

October 29, 2014

Atheist and Christian argue about hell. Guess who wins?

While sitting at Starbucks yesterday I overheard the following conversation between two men I’ll call...

September 2014

September 12, 2014

Be Who You Are and Help the Church Be the Church

One cannot fault any of our LGBT sisters and brothers for their dislike of Christians...

September 02, 2014

What to Do About ISIS: A Christian’s Anguish

When I think about ISIS and what our response as a nation should be to...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Dr. Albert Mohler versus musician Michael Gungor: Who is on the verge of theological peril?

Could the struggle with, against, and for power be behind much of what is today...

August 12, 2014

Baptist pastor calls for sexually ethical understanding of divorce

Contrary to what many opponents of same-sex marriage would want us to believe, Jesus did...

August 07, 2014

Stupid Religion

I just had another one of those conversations. The conversation I seem to have a...

July 2014

July 18, 2014

Left Behind (for being gay)

A woman's childhood fears return, big time.

July 10, 2014

Baptist pastor on why the Bible supports LGBT equality

I believe that Christians who condemn LGBTQ persons are not only misinterpreting Scripture and standing...

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