Tag: Christians

Over in Bledsoe, Kentucky there has been an incident that truly merits a bit of attention. It concerns a shutting down of an artistic conference by some fanatical Christians. OK, I can hear your thoughts, you are thinking that nudity was involved, or something along those lines … right? ...

One of the many reasons I’m not a Christian is that everyone seems to have a different interpretation of what the Bible means. They pick and choose which bits to believe and which to quietly discard, like those who preach that “man shall not sleep with man” but happily eat shell...

I have just finished Nadya Williams’ “Cultural Christians in the Early Church.” The book is a delightful and thought-provoking romp through a riveting cast of characters in early Christianity, introducing the modern reader to well-known historic figures (Augustine, Cyprian, Pl...

Recently I was astounded when my partner, who was raised in a strict Christian sect, informed me of a worrisome trend among American Christians: Many fundamentalists and evangelicals want to bring on the ‘end times’ — thus hastening ‘the rapture’ and the glori...

That particular piece got some of the most organic engagement I’ve ever had on something I’d written. Last I checked, more than a thousand people have found it, and not merely because they searched “Christianity” on Medium — their friends and relatives sent it to them. ...

There’s a competition in Christianity, and if you asked Christians themselves what they’re striving to achieve, they’d say they’re trying to be Christ-like. For instance, the young liberal fad of “deconstructing” Christianity is supposed to be a matter of pruni...

Dear Evangelical Brothers-in-Christ, I love you and wish only the best for you. Evangelicals and gay Christians sometimes speak in different languages. Occasionally, a common phrase used by Evangelicals is considered laughable to us gay Christians. Having been an Evangelical for 46 y...

Robinson is calling progressive Christians like me tools of Satan. He is accusing our theology of being twisted truth “that sounds compassionate, sounds empathetic” but isn’t true. I cannot speak for all progressive Christians, but I base my doctrine on Scripture, on the Holy Bi...

Growing up as a Pastor’s kid in the eighties gave me a front-row pew to the kind of vitriol and anger that can emerge from an otherwise lovely and mild-mannered Christian when you say or do something that challenges their strongly held beliefs. When my country conducted a nationwide plebisc...

I read a story yesterday that made my heart sing, that thrilled me and filled me with positivity. A Christian church in the Dallas area has launched a resistance network to care for transgender teenagers the Texas government is persecuting. Those resistance leaders, who are ri...

A few months ago, I wrote an article about how Australia is no longer a majority Christian nation. Now, according to new research from Pew, the USA is not too far behind. The USA has long been at the center of the evangelical church universe, enjoying majority status in the USA for as l...

I was the first person in my family to embrace Christianity. My parents followed traditional Buddhist beliefs and practices. It wasn’t until my teenage years that I had my first encounter with Christians. Being young and impressionable, and with little guidance from my parents in this matter, ...

When you are inside the church system, you don’t realize that you are doing and saying things that might make you an object of suspicion and scorn to the rest of the world. Rather, you tend to believe that any hate you receive is because you are doing a good job representing Christ, but those ...

I’m tired of hearing of all of these proposed bills about morality. The Moral Minority seriously needs to get a hobby. It’s getting more and more ridiculous, the things we’re reading about in the news these days. Mind your own damn business, already. If people want to spend thei...

I don’t think I’ve been to a basic American holiday season celebration where my Jewishness wasn’t brought up, and not by me. I’m not religious, don’t typically discuss religion, and don’t come from a family that was religious or typically discussed religion. I hav...

It seems like all I am hearing nowadays is how well Trump is doing amongst born-again Christians and how they could be crucial to his re-election bid. One might ask why a thrice-divorced, serial lying, misogynist, racist, rapist, who could not name a favorite passage from the Bible, would be the dar...

Oh, I understand now. It’s taken a few years, and I feel a little naive. But I get it. It’s not about liberty or personal protection. It’s certainly not about tyranny. It’s about control. Strength. Boots, smashing faces. The current conservative project has a simple goal: ...

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