There should be a name for this grief, the grief of watching the faith that raised you trade away its own soul. The grief of watching the church that taught you to love your neighbor, to care for the vulnerable, to seek justice and walk humbly with God, lay it all on...
Reminder: women were ordained as pastors, priest, and bishops in the first three centuries of the early church. To claim ordaining women is "slipping into liberalism," is to miss how the church stopped ordaining women because it slipped into patriarchy.
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
There’s nothing quite as disturbing as watching those who claim to follow Jesus mock and dehumanize the very people Jesus loved and even the kind of people exhibiting the same characteristics he did, like being a man who freely expressed emotions and cried. Jesus said...
If your Christianity causes you to mock people with disabilities... If your Christianity causes you to mock the genuine expressions of emotion and love... If your Christianity causes you to mock men who cry... Your Christianity has nothing to do with Jesus.
A short list of questions we Christians need to be better about asking ourselves regarding our beliefs: How might I be wrong? How might the passion of my beliefs regarding an issue be causing me to ignore errors about my beliefs themselves? Do my beliefs about social...
Dear Christian, God doesn’t need your defense. Jesus doesn’t need your defense. Christianity doesn’t need your defense. The Bible doesn’t need your defense. The Ten Commandments don’t need your defense. The poor, the powerless, the marginalized, the vulnerable, and...
According to the gospels, Jesus wasn’t married. Jesus didn’t have children. People have still allowed him to lead their entire lives. The same is true for the apostle Paul and countless others in the Christian tradition. Should Joan of Arc have her sainthood revoked...
When a politician claims that God is on their side they are just using God to try to get you on their side. It is simply taking God's name in vain for the sake of their own pursuit of power. Turning any politician into some messiah-like figure for Christianity is...
Christianity should sound like, "my beliefs cause me to see profound value in every single person," not "each person's value is measured by how closely they align with my personal beliefs."