Let Them Eat Cake
That's what she said.
It wasn't out of malice or even hard-heartedness that Marie Antoinette supposedly uttered these now infamous words, but out of a barnacled ignorance that grows and eventually blinds all ...
The Church and the New Civil Rights Movement
Richard “Dick” Brogan was a personal friend, and he was one of my heroes.
Dick was a white Mississippi Baptist minister who worked tirelessly to build relationships between whites and blacks during segregatio...
Open and Affirming Because of the Bible
I want to start by saying that any time there are two people with opposing views concerning a third group of people, the resulting conversation will involve much audacity, hubris and privilege. That I am give...
Open? Yes! Affirming? No.
I’ve been running into a lot of comments from friends across the blogosphere lately, revolving around the issue of how the church should respond to homosexuality today. I write this response with ...
Trying Not To Say The L Word: Red Flags, Red Letters and Black Letters
Earlier than I would have preferred this morning, in order to scurry home and shuffle my son off to day camp, I took a sweaty summer walk with a friend. As our heart rates rose, we chatted about the conversa...
Are Evangelicals Fixated on Homosexuality?
Sigmund Freud would have something to say about the ways in which we Evangelicals seem to be fixated on homosexuality. That fixation became abundantly clear to me a few years back when I was doing radio interv...