Listen to the podcast interview We’ve all heard of people who are “high on Jesus,” but what happens when a religious person can’t get enough of that high feeling and will do anything in their power to keep that high going? That’s called addiction and
Listen to the podcast interview Don’t write off the Right Since 1999, Soulforce has been working hard to secure a place at the table for GLBT people in church and society. They’ve staged sit-ins at Focus on the Family, protested at denominational conventions and synods,
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
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
Raising up prophets to society When I first picked up Dr. Robert Minor’s book Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human, I couldn’t help but be reminded of my teen years when we were
It isn’t so much that Marc Adams doesn’t do interviews, it’s more like he doesn’t seek them out. Nine years have passed since the release of Marc Adams’ first gay-themed book, The Preacher’s Son. In reality, The Preacher’s Son is his autobiography. At least as
I was beside myself with excitement. I fidgeted while I waited for the phone to ring. Had other lesbians known that I was waiting for Emily Saliers, one half of the lesbian icon musical duo the Indigo Girls, to call me I’d be the object
I first heard of Philip Yancey when his book What’s So Amazing About Grace? came out in 1997. Even though many people whom I respected raved about the book, I was not interested in reading the book. Why would I? It was written by a man
Kim Boykin is a Christian practitioner of Zen and an experienced workshop leader and teacher of Zen practices and contemplative prayer, to both Christian and non-Christian audiences. She holds the M.T.S. degree from Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and is currently working toward a
Listen to the podcast interview with Bishop Robinson News release With 110 dioceses in the Episcopal Church, it seems someone is always electing a new bishop. But the attention of the Anglican world is now focused on one — the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the