Showing posts with label Baptists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baptists. Show all posts
Saturday, August 17, 2019

"Ladies, You'll Never Have to Use a Washing Machine Again When You Get to Heaven": I Report on a Funeral Sermon

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Maytag Ad 1959 "Ladies, just think! You'll never have to use a washing machine again when you get to heaven." Then t...
Monday, December 10, 2018

Abuse of Vulnerable People and Churches: Recent Reports, from Baptists to Nuns Raped by Bishops and Priests to Jesuits to a German Princess Saving the Church

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This is a collection of reports on the abuse situation as it is unfolding in various churches now. These are all recent statements, and...
Monday, November 19, 2018

"Boy Erased" and the Destructive Effects of So-Called "Conversion" Therapy: Commentary on the Film

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American Psychiatric Association, "APA Reiterates Strong Opposition to Conversion Therapy":
Saturday, February 24, 2018

As Neo-Nazis Celebrate Murder of Gay Jewish College Student, Where Are the Churches? (When They're Not Firing Queer Employees and Supporting Anti-Queer Discrimination, That Is)

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Members of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division have been linked to five murders—most recently the stabbing death of a gay Jewish colle...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Two More Queer Catholics Fired, "Progressive" Evangelicals "Discern" Whether Queer Folks Should Be Treated Equally, CBF Discriminates Against Queer Employees: What's This All About?

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Mark Guevarra writes , "In early December 2017, a representative from the Archdiocese of Edmonton called me in for an invest...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Two More Resources re: Non-LGBTQ-Affirming Policy of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Shane Claiborne's Refusal, as a "Progressive Evangelical," to Affirm Queer Folks Unambiguously

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When a commitment to a doctrine overshadows the ability to see other people’s humanity, one has conceded their own humanity for ideology...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Alan McCornick on Cardinal Marx, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship on LGBTQ Employees, Heated Debate About Progressive Evangelicals and LGBTQ Lives: News

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Trump's Statement on Alleged Abuser #RobPorter : 'Him-He-Him-Him-He-He-He-He-Him-He-He-He-He-He-He-Him-Him-He-He' - https://t...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

David Gushee's Still Christian: Following Jesus Out of American Evangelicalism on His Experience When He Spoke Out vs. Anti-LGBT Theologies

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In his book Still Christian: Following Jesus Out of American Evangelicalism (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017), David P. Gushee...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Garrard Conley's Boy Erased: Template for Understanding Religion-Based Homophobia and Its Assault on Queer Humanity

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I mentioned a few days back that I was reading Garrard Conley's book, Boy Erased (NY: Riverhead, 2016) , which recounts his expe...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Further Updates, Same-Sex Marriage in Arkansas: Democrat-Gazette Publishes Rejoinder to Jason Rapert, and On Marrying Where We Live

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Last week, I expressed doubt about whether my state's newspaper of record, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , would publish Judge W...
Friday, June 5, 2009

Candace Chellew-Hodge on David Gushee's Welcome of Gays to Churches: When Welcome Doesn't Mean Welcome

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I wrote yesterday about Mitchell Gold and Mindy Drucker’s important anthology of first-hand testimonies re: growing up gay in churched Amer...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

If Today You Hear: Epiphanies and the Everyday

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In the pilgrimage that is life, the lessons we most need to hear at any give time are right there around us, if we but have ears to hear the...
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