Learning to share the public space with those with whom we disagree; learning to overcome humanity’s abysmal record of religious wars, religious ethnic cleansing, and genocide-fueled religious bigotry—these have become some of the most urgent challenges of our time.” —Ganoune Diop, October 2016 Our friends at PRRI, the Public Religion Research Institute, have published a research […]
It Will Take All of Us to Build a Just World
When the 2015 Urbana Missions Conference tackled race head-on last December, it seemed that the evangelical Christian community could finally say “Black Lives Matter” without hedging. Some dug through Urbana’s archives to find one of evangelicalism’s best preachers breaking down the American church’s history with systemic injustice and making the case for people of faith […]
Building Beloved Community on Bones?
The principles for managing great community conversations are about the same as the principles for managing great relationships: mutual respect, equity, integrity, freedom from violence or abuse, and a bias toward care and common growth. Last spring I worked with Daneen Akers and Stephen Eyer, co-directors of the narrative film Seventh-Gay Adventists, on a new […]
LGBT Youth Homelessness? Not The Time To Argue
I recently learned that an unofficial student group at Andrews University has been blocked from fundraising on campus to support a regional LGBT youth homelessness organization. (Read more via Blue Nation Review, Windy City Times, and Raw Story.) I’ve heard for years about the differences in how heterosexual and LGBT youth experience homelessness and youth services, but I […]
The Evangelical Turn — A Few Hard Questions
This week, Eliel Cruz interviewed evangelical ethics professor Dr. David Gushee for his LGBT-faith column at the Religious News Service. I’ll either share or comment on that interview when it’s live. Gushee, who teaches at Mercer University in Atlanta, hit the national papers earlier this fall after declaring that his theology had changed and he could no longer support […]
Synchroblog: Coming Back to Prayer
This is a contribution to the 2014 Queer Theology Synchroblog under the theme “Coming and Going.” Other contributions will be compiled on the QT site by October 22. The article I contributed to last year’s synchroblog on creation was based on Genesis 1:2, and I reference it in this piece. “I, though I saw and heard these […]