Periodically those trying to perpetuate anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the name of Christianity will demand that I “show them the Scripture” that supports why mainline Protestant churches and denominations in the US and Western Europe are predominantly welcoming and affirming of queer people. It should be noted that mainline Protestants do… Continue reading
A number of people are posting in my social media feed about “Critical Race Theory” (CRT), but it’s apparent from the content of those posts that some of them are not distinguishing CRT from the larger disciplines of African-American Studies, African Diaspora Studies, and History. CRT is a subset of… Continue reading
This fight isn’t about “life,” or “babies,” or religion, or ethics, or helping women. This fight is about power, and the degree to which a bigoted and superstitious minority can use political power to exert its will on the whole country. Continue reading
We must not see Jesus as alone on the Cross. We must see all of the other broken bodies and weeping faces we have been willing to place there alongside him. We must see not only our salvation, but our complicity in all of the systems that privilege the lives of some over the lives of others. Continue reading
Trump’s presidency will undoubtedly deal devastating blows to the viability of the United States as a modern, healthy, secular democracy, but he is merely the symptom. The near metastatic threat to our future as a nation is not in the Oval Office, it’s in the pulpits of the fundamentalist mega-churches. Continue reading