Listen to the podcast interview Take a hike: ‘Asphalt Jesus’ takes progressive Christianity on the road As followers of Christ, often we find it far too intimidating or difficult to go across the street to share our faith with another person, let alone take a
Talk about an instance of what seems to be the worst possible timing! Just before the time that Easter, and the time when one of the key events in the Bible is said to have happened and believed by many Christians to have happened (the
Listen to the podcast interview with Bishop Robinson Excerpt from the end of Chapter Five, “Preparation and Call.” In spite of the rise of the Religious Right as a political force in both church and secular life in the United States, the decades of the
Editor: I’ve just come across Whosoever and I think it’s wonderful. Thank you for it. It’s a wonderful resource. I was googling “Angry at God” for a sermon I was writing, and that’s when I found Whosoever. I’m a straight man in my late 50s
A friend of mine, just back from a conference at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s headquarters in Chicago (our “Vatican”), sported a sassy new T-shirt. On the front was a colorful portrait of Martin Luther, giving the world a jaunty wink. And on the
Gracious Christianity Cover Stories Gracious Christianity By Rev. Candace Chellew Religion has become mean-spirited, catty, critical, a clique where one must walk in lock step to the doctrine, dogma and yes, the political tenets, or one is certainly bound for a fiery afterlife. Revenge of
Paradox of grace Jim Mulholland and Philip Gulley seem to get a kick out of stirring up controversy. As the authors of the controversial book If Grace is True: Why God Will Save Every Person they’re getting used to their status as targets. Their book
Editor: God be with you and thank you for this magazine. I have been encouraged by most of what I have read, brought to tears by some of the pain felt by others from people who call themselves Christians, and have come to the wall
Spirituality of Music Cover Stories A Song To Sing, A Life To Live: An Interview with Indigo Girl Emily Saliers and Her Dad Don Saliers By Rev. Candace Chellew I fidgeted while I waited for the phone to ring. Had other lesbians known that I
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:14-27 Dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life End over end neither left nor to right Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights Dropkick me Jesus through the goalposts of life Make me, Oh