Read the rest of the series When you think about God, what do you imagine? What’s the first image that surfaces in your mind? Take a moment and just sit with this image. Don’t critique it or praise it, just take it in. OK, now
Read the rest of the series “I didn’t think I could have both,” she said, looking back down at the table. We sat there for a while, looking outside at this place that had brought us together. It was a typical spring afternoon at Sarah
Challenging Us To Admit How Little We Know Queer Religiosities: An Introduction to Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion, by award-winning scholar and teacher Melissa M. Wilcox, would make an excellent textbook in an “introductory” course in which I’d like to enroll. And it was
‘Naked Pastor’ David Hayward on waterfalls, leaving religion, cartooning Listen to the podcast interview It was a dream about a waterfall that finally gave David Hayward the peace of mind he needed after leaving his career as a pastor in 2010 after almost 30 years
In 2012, Matthew Vines produced a video that went viral, even though it did not feature even one kitten doing something funny or cute. Instead, his video was a speech he gave to his Presbyterian Church USA congregation in Wichita, Kansas, explaining exactly why six
Moral God and immoral nature On April 30, I attended a presentation sponsored by the Ottawa International Writers’ Festival featuring a talk by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner on his latest book, The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person. Job is
Love, hate and solidarity Is it possible to love and hate a book at the same time? That’s what I’ve been struggling with for the past week, after reading Timothy Kurek’s book The Cross in the Closet. As a gay man I find the premise
Being Jesus in Nashville: Finding the Courage to Live Your Life (Whoever and Wherever You Are) is an amazing book with an amazing backstory. The author, Jim Palmer, was a popular writer who had written two best-sellers in the evangelical Christian world: Divine Nobodies: Shedding
‘Better starts now’ News release: Free Spirit Publishing As a part of journalist Dan Savage’s project, a host of celebrities and politicians have been delivering the message to GLBTQ teens that “it gets better.” Author Kelly Huegel is here to tell you that better starts
More than a scapegoat I predict that the title of Theodore W. Jennings Jr’s book The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives from the New Testament will make readers mad, sad or glad to borrow a phrase from a pastor I once knew. Unless you’re one