Christianity

It is inevitable that Christians who would now be described as "liberal" will be the overwhelming majority of Christians in America. That sea change, the waters of which we already feel swelling everywhere around us, can no sooner be stopped than can the moon passing across the night sky. [ Read more → ]

When you contrast the millions upon millions of dollars that these parasitic groups of institutions have spent to marginalize and demonize LGBTQ persons against the stark reality of the needs of the poor, disadvantaged and children who need loving homes and who need to be nurtured, it is difficult to not feel disgusted and angered. [ Read more → ]

The big elephant in the room is that I remain, still, a gay Christian. To my family’s belief structure, this just isn’t possible. My parents and I have danced and boxed around this issue, and we’ve been stuck for quite some time at an impasse... [ Read more → ]

Yesterday I received this email (which I use here by permission): Dear John, Hi. My name is [deleted]. I am nearly 48-years-old, and am married with two grown children. I am also a Methodist minister in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I have come to believe that... [ Read more → ]

Virtually all sins share a crucial, defining, common quality. Because that quality, which is present in every other imaginable sin, is utterly missing from being or acting gay, insisting on putting homosexuality into the same category as every other sin — or in the category of sin at all — is like gluing wings on a pig... [ Read more → ]

Many people, desiring to make sense of it all, will ask questions such as "Is Hurricane Irene a sign from God?" or "Is God punishing the Northeast -- especially the state of New York -- for its acceptance of the "gay lifestyle" and the regions embrace of gay marriage?" [ Read more → ]

Michele Bachmann has championed the “Christian” cause, sprinkling her speeches with scripture and holy buzzphrases. But one in particular caught my ear. [ Read more → ]

Unaware that their cause had been lost, a small number of Japanese soldiers deep in the jungles of the Philippines continued waging guerrilla warfare against an imaginary enemy years after World War II had ended. Via dropped pamphlets, newspapers left everywhere, and even relatives at... [ Read more → ]

I don’t appreciate anyone telling me that God has a better way in a context that is only used to change or “fix” me into what they think God wants for me. What about what I have come to know God wants for me? They are not serving Jesus, they are serving their own ignorance... [ Read more → ]

I've recently been invited to a couple of gay weddings. So -- what with being Christian and all -- I asked myself the famous, "What would Jesus do?" (Which I don't too often ask myself, actually, since Jesus could, for instance, raise people from the... [ Read more → ]

Luckily I was away at a family reunion — celebrating actual love — so I missed Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s hot mess of a rally on Saturday. But Right Wing Watch made videos of certain scenes. And they just kill me. How in the world can some of these people dare to pray to God for deliverance for the nation while ignoring their own sins? [ Read more → ]

My worldview doesn’t condemn anyone else to eternal fire and damnation. It doesn’t threaten anyone else at all, really. People ... may think they’re being threatened, but I think they’re just scared — too scared to look at the reality of life with open hearts. Their hearts are set in stone — immovable, inflexible, afraid. [ Read more → ]

Last month, I reported on Michael Bresciani’s revelations that gays were paving the way for the Antichrist to emerge. But now, he’s upping the ante with an even more terrifying message: Gays are the very children of the Devil himself. [ Read more → ]

I think I may have just discovered why Michele Bachmann has such unnatural hatred and anger for gay men. [ Read more → ]

Self-anointed “American Prophet” Michael Bresciani, a Christian author who likens himself to the biblical prophets Isaiah and Micah, has a revelation from God that is meant to serve as a warning to America... [ Read more → ]