To Baptist Clergy Sex Abuse Survivors: 10 Tips from the Trenches
Never doubt the value, and indeed the sanctity, of your efforts at bringing truth to light.
Highpoint Church: How You Know Jesus Has Left Your Church
When your entire church service becomes a cover-up to retain the power and prestige of your congregation and its pastors, one of whom is a confessed sexual abuser.
Salvation for White People
It’s easy to point fingers at extremists carrying torches in Charlottesville. They need to be saved, we say, and we’re right. But we need to be saved too. And our silence gets in the way of our being saved.
How Not To Be Evangelical This Ash Wednesday
As St. Paul and Jon Lennon sort-of put it, in the end all we have (or need) is love.
Jesus and Baptists and Jews – Oy Vey!
May 26, 2013 | BY: BERT MONTGOMERY -- True friendship requires a lot of hard work, not to mention trust and respect. Sometimes it's just...
Another Baptist for Marriage Equality
BY: REV. JILL MCCRORY -- Tuesday morning I was walking from the Interfaith Service for Love and Justice toward the Supreme Court...
WWJB (What Would Jesus Brew)?
There’s a well-known saying, often attributed to Ben Franklin, about God and beer. I’ve even seen it on T-shirts and the like, but it turns out it’s mis-quoted. The one I see and hear is generally some der...
Pastor Worley and the Slippery Slope of “Speaking the Truth in Love”
Photo By davidz
Every time I blog about homosexuality and the church, I get at least one email or comment that says that I am either wasting my time or sowing dissent. As a straight, married, Asian Ame...
Of Janis Joplin and Christian Women (Owed to Being Unladylike)
I was three-years old the first time I heard Janis Joplin's “Mercedes Benz” on the radio. In 1971, Dad (though not a fan of rock and roll) thought it quite funny, and we heard it several times during a family...
Mardi Gras – For Baptists
It's been almost 26 years since I left Louisiana with my parents, and I still really miss the Mardi Gras season. Mardi Gras is one long, enormous party – in the best, and sometimes the worst, sense of the w...