Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment; Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition. — Rumi God is bipolar. Rev. Dr. J. Henry Jurgens, a practicing psychiatrist and doctor of divinity at Yale University Divinity School, has diagnosed God almighty as suffering from the disorder that afflicts
Scripture: Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:36-41, Luke 8:22-25 Over the course of the past year or so, I have stopped attending church. (Like an abused dog, hiding in the corner and licking its wounds, I have decided to punish the church by removing my august presence.)
Legal recognition and celebration of same-sex marriage is far more revolutionary than just the passage of a few state and national laws. The bonds (“bondage”) of matrimony cry out for a fresh look at the ancient human tradition of marriage, which is based on the
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings: 2 Samuel 11:2-5, Matthew 15:21-28, 1 Corinthians 13:9-13 I had been in seminary only a little while when my then-partner asked me a stumper of a question. “Don’t you think that’s a contradiction?” she asked me one day.
God, Humans and Animals Cover Stories Every Creature Is a Word of God By Candace Chellew If we pay close attention to the animals in our lives, we can hear God speaking to us — speaking words of love, charity, hope and grace. Love, With
The Beloved Community Cover Stories Now That’s Community! By Candace Chellew Despite the difference in the details between Jesus and Paul’s approach to community, we are called to follow both models today. We cannot take Paul’s idea of only being “in” the world but not
Editor: I just found your Web site today. What a blessing this will be for me. I am 40 this summer with two daughters. I have just made the decided to follow my heart. I have always been deeply religious. I look forward to what
Editor: That was the best article I’ve read in a long time (Patricia Nell Warren’s Choice in Sexual Orientation: The Sword That Cuts Both Ways). Very powerful. I’m struggling myself and this was a huge help. Very well said. Thank you. Carmen Editor: I
The Empty Tomb: What Does the Resurrection Mean? Cover Stories The Reality of Resurrection By Candace Chellew Resurrection is not about Jesus opening his eyes in the tomb, removing the Shroud of Turin, stretching out the kinks of crucifixion, frightening the women, and taking a
What if we were to understand the resurrection and ascension not as the bodily translation of some individuals to another world — a mythology no longer credible to us — but as the promise of God to be permanently present, ‘bodily’ present to us, in