I just got back from Love Breaks Out, a pro-gay response to Focus on the Family and Exodus held in Palm Springs Saturday. From left to right: Peggy Campolo (wife of Tony Campolo), Peterson Tosocano (performing artist) and ex-gay survivor…
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Pastor Advocates for Charity, Not Nationalism
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Katherine Hawker is pastor at Evangelical United Church of Christ in Webster Groves, Missouri. Writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month, Hawker contrasted local mainline churches that celebrate World Communion Day to foster Christian unity and charity, with the…
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Sin Is ‘Neither Republican Nor Democratic’
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From BeliefNet author Diana Butler Bass via Straight, Not Narrow: “Making sexuality a political issue, as much of the Religious Right has done, distracts from a host of other issues, such as poverty, war, and environmental concerns. But it also…
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From Dwight at A Religious Liberal Blog: This was a quote I gleamed off of Fr Jake’s site. It identifies a problem with the drive to conformity that the right seeks. “Any insistence to agree on everything sounds like a…
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Fear, individualism and consumerism: Have they replaced realism among American Christians? Peter Laarman thinks so. He urgently calls for a renewed commitment to realism. I want simply to focus in on Niehbuhr’s core insight that Christians should see the world…
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Which God Does Exodus Worship?
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A recent Baylor University religion survey finds U.S. Christians worshipping different gods. Those gods are identified as the Authoritarian God, the Benevolent God, the Critical God, and the Distant God. Sources: USA Today via Christian Alliance for Progress, September 12,…
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Christian Rightist Repudiates Falwell, Bush
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Christian rightist Chuck Baldwin is criticizing the immoral and self-serving politics of Jerry Falwell and George Bush — and, by extension, the acolytes of Falwell and Bush who in recent years have seized command of Exodus International. (Falwell keynoted Exodus’…
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GOP’s Danforth Stands Up to Party Theocracy
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A new book by Republican former U.S. senator John Danforth criticizes the GOP’s growing corruption by the Christian Right, and he speaks some difficult truths about same-sex attraction, the antigay Federal Marriage Amendment, and campaigns by Christian rightists to undermine…
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Archbishop’s U-turn: Gays Must Change?
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Archbishop Rowan Williams’s most recent remarks about homosexuality have been widely interpreted as “gays must change”. Speaking in the Sunday Telegraph last month, ++Rowan said: “I don’t believe inclusion is a value in itself. Welcome is. We don’t say ‘Come…
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Ex-Gay Minister Became a Supporter
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There is an article in the Washington MetroWeekly about a gay-supportive African American minister that is leaving DC and going to a church in New York. Alvin Jackson, who was a shining star in the Disciples of Christ church (pastor…