Columnist David Kuo’s book Tempting Faith will rival, on a smaller scale, Bob Woodward’s State of Denial as a disturber of the peace. “Smaller scale” does not mean “small scale,” since its accusations and revelations refer to the way the cohort of evangelical supporters and
Controversial new book tackles Black church homophobia Attempting to break “hundreds of years of silence,” a new, controversial book argues that pervasive homophobia in the historically black church has reached “crisis” proportion. “The black church’s teaching that homosexuality is immoral has created a crisis for
I invite you all to come with me now to a sacred place. The room is large, the ceilings are high, dotted with recessed lighting – turned down low. The room is overlooked by a balcony, full of people greeting one another, smiling and laughing
Listen to the podcast interview When Jack Rogers hears someone talk about the “gay lifestyle” he thinks of Playboy millionaire Hugh Hefner. “Hugh Hefner lives in a mansion with a lot of pretty women with whom he can have sex. His is a life of
In Godless, her latest and most ill-tempered book-length rant, Ann Coulter asserts that liberalism is a “godless” religion. In fact, however, the most fundamental problem in Christianity in America and the world today is that the “fundamentalist” religion that most loudly proclaims itself to be
There’s another argument to be made when we fight state and federal marriage amendments. It has the potential to take back the debate because it’s about the Constitution and the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom. There’s no doubt that the need for marriage equality
A new Pentecost The time has come to let the fundamentalists have the church. So says Rev. Matthew Fox in his new book A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity, where he presents his own 95 theses in the tradition of Martin
Disarming the Scriptures When I saw the announcement for Craig Bettendorf’s new book A Biblical Defense Guide for Gays, Lesbians and Those Who Love Them, my first reaction was to groan. Why in the world do we need yet another book about what the Bible
In his new book, The Baptizing of America, Rabbi James Rudin speaks of a developing American “Christocracy.” Kevin Phillips, in American Theocracy, writes about a developing “theocracy.” Rudin is a moderate and Phillips has carefully detailed his own odyssey. Reviews of Phillips are coming in
Sermon delivered on February 19, 2006 Text: 1 Samuel 3:1-20 A month or so ago, I became clear that I had to do something different in my life. It was one of those experiences that you can’t make happen – it happens to you. I