I just got in the below email. I hope you can find it in your heart to offer our young friend here a kind word and a bit of fellowship, for which she had the courage to ask. (more…) Read more
I just got in the below email. I hope you can find it in your heart to offer our young friend here a kind word and a bit of fellowship, for which she had the courage to ask. (more…) Read more
I recently received the email below, and wanted to share it with you (with permission, of course). This is how the personal dynamics of this sort of affair are unfolding in families all across the country today. (more…) Read more
Here is the “promo video” for The Head Covering Movement (which I recently learned about via the excellent blog, Ain’t I a Woman?): (more…) Read more
Here is a letter I got in response to the call I put out on my blog awhile back asking for the personal testimony of gay Christians: I am a 72-year-old Christian mother and grandmother. I had a wonderful career as a teacher for every age, from pre-school through college. I served as a member of our church council, as a Sunday school teacher, as a Vacation Bible School superintendent, and I have been on mission trips to every continent.... Read more
On the group blog for Unfundamentalist Christians, we have published UCer Mindy Carney’s To Pro-Lifers Who Believe Adoption is Always the Answer, a letter she wrote in response to a man who, on the website for The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, wrote that it is essentially a woman’s duty to carry her pregnancy to term, since she can always relinquish her child for adaption. I think Ms. Brown’s letter is an important contribution to our national conversation about abortion, and... Read more
Got this in last week: Hi John, I’m writing to share a problem I have with being a Christian and confronting the anti-gay attitude of the Church. (more…) Read more
Got this in: Hello John, I don’t know how I found your page, but I am glad I did. You are the only one who hit it on the money. (more…) Read more
This week The Atlantic ran a story, The Rise of the Christian Left in America, the money quote of which is: (more…) Read more
The idea that God is the ultimate hat trick—that he is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all at once—is something that has always confused and challenged Christians and everyone else with a normal, binary-style brain. But a look at the opening of the Gospel According to John perfectly explicates the triune nature of God: (more…) Read more
The poem below is a collaborative effort between me and Ford, a friend of mine. It was inspired by this piece, which Ford published on his blog yesterday. (more…) Read more
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