Boldly professing the obvious since 2009
In the wake of the Supreme Court refusing to hear a case challenging the Washington, DC law recognizing gay marriages, DC pastor Anthony Evans has declared a “civil war between the church and the gay community“: “[W]hat the Supreme Court has set up is the greatest civil war between the church and the gay community,” [...] Read more »
Alternet has posted an article, “What Happened When Fundamentalist Christians Tried to ‘Cure’ Me of Homosexuality,” in which “a young gay man recounts his soul-crushing experience being ‘rehabilitated’ by the Christian Right,” taken from “My Nightmare Experience at Teen Challenge,” which was posted on the “Truth Wins Out” blog. (And is that right? Should it [...] Read more »
Interesting how things can work in today’s soundbite culture. (I should preface this with a disclaimer that this post does not not advocate O’Donnell as a candidate. For one, I think it would be better to have representatives who didn’t fudge their academic backgrounds, as she is alleged to have done.) That said, I just [...] Read more »
Had some fun with my Historical Jesus course last night, asking my students (who had just finished reading Mark) to answer the following question: What exactly did Jesus preach? Eventually, one enterprising student rightly called attention to Mark 1:14–15, After John had been handed over, Jesus went into Galilee, preaching the gospel ["good news"] of [...] Read more »
I figured it would only be appropriate for my first post since getting back from my honeymoon would be on sex. CNN’s religion blog has a short article (mainly borrowing from John Acuff’s recent post on “Stuff Christians Like”) talking about how Christians “spoil” sex by focusing too much on guilt, abstinence, etc. and less [...] Read more »