The Gospel of Donald Trump
The darkness that Trump — and we — have cultivated seems to settle between and within each one of us. The only “good news” worthy of the name is from the work of a living God, and we can never afford to forget that.
The Power and the Threat of Kneeling: Colin Kaepernick
You want Kaepernick to go away, to stand up and salute the flag, and shut up because we can tolerate abuse of other human beings but we cannot tolerate being disrupted when we want to pretend that everything is OK.
InterVarsity Offers the World a Gay Saint?
With God as his heartthrob, Coles’ celibacy is a variety of queer love. Queer enough to make both liberals and conservatives squirm.
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.
Now Is The Time For Prophetic Moral Action
It’s time for those of us who are called to proclaim and embody God’s Word to put on our clerical robes, take up our holy books, and speak truth in the public square.
Repentance When Taking Bread & Wine
There have been times when, in the face of racism and homophobia, I remained silent and did nothing – and that silence was sin.
Do Gay Christians Go to Heaven?
MAR 16, 2014 | BY: JOHN WATSON -- You probably read that title, and muttered the answer to yourself. Your answer. The one you're...
The Gospel According To Who?
MAR 9, 2014 | BY: STEPHEN JARNICK -- We all know the story of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...
Why 'Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin' Doesn't Work
NOV 6, 2013 | BY: TONY CAMPOLO -- In the below video I tell a story about a gay soon and emphasize the damage of the common statement...
Hitler in Heaven?
JULY 23, 2013 | BY: JOHN WATSON -- You die. You ascend, or transmute, or do whatever happens, and end up in heaven. You are greeted...