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the circular reasoning of faith healing

Last updated on: June 1, 2013 at 7:52 am By David Hayward

I know this stuff first hand. For years I was in the kinds of Christian cultures that reasoned this way and taught this stuff. Baptist. Pentecostal. Charismatic. Renewal. Vineyard. Independent. Even some Presbyterian. Yep! I was immersed in this stuff, believed this stuff, and taught this stuff. Be clear… this cartoon is not saying that not one of these things is possible or true. That’s another theological issue. What the cartoon is critiquing is the systemization, the dogmatization, the rationalization,... Read more

no this is not a gay friendly church

Last updated on: May 31, 2013 at 10:39 am By David Hayward

No, this is not a gay-friendly church. I remember posting this, one of my first gay advocacy cartoons, many years ago. The wake behind that was, well, interesting. I believe in equality for all, including equal opportunity. Read more

Father Andrew Greeley died: a tribute cartoon

Last updated on: May 31, 2013 at 8:01 am By David Hayward

Father Andrew Greeley died yesterday. Roman Catholic priest. Prophet. Defender of women. Theologian. Social critic. Child advocate. Author of novels with sex scenes. Church critic on issues such as birth control, preaching, youth, lay people, women and church leadership. Exuberantly combative, he could be scathing about the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops; at one point he described them as “morally, intellectually and religiously bankrupt.” If the church wanted “to salvage American Catholicism,” he wrote, it would be well advised to retire... Read more

why I don’t agree with this cartoon

Last updated on: May 31, 2013 at 6:50 am By David Hayward

I don’t agree with this cartoon. It’s message is that atheism has the key to unlock the mind from religion. In other words, atheism is the key to free thinking and even intelligence. This is ideological elitism, an accusation that can be made against the three religions represented in the drawing… Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Proponents from any one of those religions would claim the same supremacy and that their religion alone possesses the key to unlock the mind from... Read more

the pope, the vatican and fishers of men

Last updated on: May 30, 2013 at 8:52 am By David Hayward

Pope Francis is very popular. I like him too. His openness towards others, including atheists, is transparent. But the Vatican is clear: you have to be careful who you let in the boat! Read more

Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot still fighting

Last updated on: May 29, 2013 at 5:56 pm By David Hayward

Two of the members of Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk rock band, are still in remote Russian prisons. One of those members, Maria Alyokhina, 24, began her hunger strike after being barred from attending her own parole hearing recently. They have been in prison since August, 2012, charged with “hooliganism”. Putin says that they must be imprisoned to “protect the faithful”. Read more

how much carpet does Sovereign Grace Ministries have?

Last updated on: May 29, 2013 at 12:16 pm By David Hayward

(***TRIGGER WARNING: sexual abuse***) I have just one simple question: Why is the church the biggest offender of covering up sexual abuse? Sovereign Grace Ministries has so far successfully loopholed itself out many serious charges of sexual abuse and coverups. Other church leaders step in to lend their support of the ministry and defend the judge’s decision to dismiss the cases. Read Rachel Held Evans’ post in support of the victims. The Roman Catholic Church continues its attempts to strengthen... Read more

gays rejected but so was Jesus

Last updated on: May 29, 2013 at 6:08 am By David Hayward

What came first? Our idea of the good person? Or our interpretation of what the bible says is a good person? Or the biblical writers’ idea of what is a good person? Or the biblical writers’ culture’s idea of what is a good person? Or God’s idea of what is a good person? Or the ancient culture’s idea of what God’s idea of what is a good person? Or our beliefs about what God’s idea is of a good person?... Read more

the pope versus the vatican

Last updated on: May 28, 2013 at 6:22 pm By David Hayward

This is what it looks like in spite of all the apologetics that are going on surrounding the pope’s declaration that even atheists are redeemed and the vatican explaining what he should have meant. My theory is that the cardinals felt it was important to have a more down to earth pope, a man more in touch with real men and women, and less of an intellectual churchman like Benedict is. It is appropriate that he is named Francis, after... Read more

diagnosed with bible blindness

Last updated on: May 28, 2013 at 7:42 am By David Hayward

Jesus said, “You study the scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.” (John 5:39) He told them that they actually point to him. But they couldn’t see that. He diagnosed them with bible blindness. He didn’t always go around quoting scripture, although it was certainly embedded in what he was saying. Instead, he talked about food, flowers, birds, earth, wind and fire. Are we so captivated by our knowledge of scripture and our theology that... Read more

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