Yesterday's Supreme Court decision allowing the transgender military ban to go into effect is another reminder that the transgender community is under attack by the current administration. They are being painted as dangerous deviants whose very existence threatens our nation. How can Christians who are rooted in a theology of love, acceptance and hospitality respond to what is happening? How do we live out our faith as allies for the trans ...
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Who is our neighbor? (Luke 10:25-37) I think Jesus makes it pretty clear that everyone is our neighbor. Somewhere in the history of the church of Jesus Christ (And I haven’t been able to put my finger on exactly when and where it happened) The church lost track of that notion. Somewhere along the way The church became the people who told women what they could and couldn’t do in the church—and in life, who told people who ...
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If you have given up on church because the church is anti-LGBTQ, anti-women, full of hypocrites, too interested in social status and not interested enough in helping the poor and the marginalized, you clearly haven't looked very hard for a church. There are plenty of churches (like mine) that are welcoming and affirming, have LGBTQ people and women in leadership roles, wear shorts to church and turn tiny amounts of resources ...
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