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State anti-trans bills aren’t just culture wars skirmishes
They’re acts of harm against living, breathing people.
The real Eugene Peterson
Many of my LGBTQ friends and clergy sisters have disavowed Peterson’s writings. Not I.
Take & Read: Global Christianity
Five books that take readers beyond Anglophone perspectives
Take & Read: Practical theology
Five books that introduce new voices to the conversation
Brought to life by Christ
Theology was not optional for me as a child. It was a matter of life or death.
by James Alison
Gorsuch’s textualism promoted justice for LGBTQ people—this time
Why we can’t rely on this or any other hermeneutical principle
Believe They Are Worthy Too, by aung.robo.arts / Anastasio Wrobel
art selection and comment by Lil Copan
Doing theology with the assumption that queer people belong
Linn Marie Tonstad summarizes a far more interesting conversation about sex and gender than the one I grew up with.
An act of solidarity with LGBTQ Methodists?
J. Philip Wogaman tried to surrender his ordination. Would this have helped?
Crisis of faith
First Erin White fell in love with Christ. Then she fell in love with Chris.
I'm a queer Christian pastor, and I'll be using regular, old, boring ashes like always.
A conversation in transition
Two new books help us talk about what it means to be transgender in a changing world.
Robert Jenson and the search for the divine feminine
Jens was never unkind to me, perhaps because I was the rare chemistry major who asked questions about God while showing enthusiasm for Barth.