Bilgrimage

* UMC offer of "all" does not include LGBTQ people. The videotaped theological conversation between Ivone Gebara and me t...

For the New Yorker , Casey N. Cep reports that the United Methodist Church is deeply divided over the issue of full inclusion of LGB...

There are a number of excellent articles online in the past several days, which touch on themes central to this blog. Colleen Baker has an ...

In a posting last week ( here ), I cited a recent interview with Soulforce co-founder Mel White ( here ), in which he notes that the movemen...

A very astute reader of this blog left a wonderful response to my posting yesterday about Bobby Jindal’s response to President Obama’s recen...

Here's a bit of local news that deserves national attention: last Saturday (21 February), the Presbytery of Arkansas voted by a large ma...

There are days I find Clerical Whispers one of the best blogs going. There are other days I wonder why Sotto Voce, its editor, chooses some...

In the wake of the proposition 8 vote, a narrative is emerging in very different social locations that focuses on the key role played by bla...

Interesting news from the United Methodist General Conference in Ft. Worth . On Saturday, Soulforce held a rally outside the Convention ...

Dear Bishop Whitaker, Having given you my testimony, and, in particular, having sketched the ways in which Methodism informs my reli...