Christian hypocrisy. This mad-genius slam poet raises tough questions for Christians. A call for critical self-honesty.
Hell. Liberalism. Gays.
The former Episcopalian Archbishop of Newark, John Shelby Spong, doesn’t shy away from controversy. Nor does he suffer from mushy liberality. Now I certainly don’t think this Jesus figure was a conservative or worse, apathetic to systemic forms of injustice, but I also don’t think he was a liberal. Certainly not. And the liberals who
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God Says Sex Is Good (VIDEO)
Thanks to Jordan Monge for uploading the video of my lecture “God Says Sex Is Good,” which was given earlier this semester as a part of Harvard’s first Sex Week. See below for links to the various Youtube clips of the lecture: God Says Sex Is Good: Part 1 God Says Sex Is Good: Part
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The Greatest Lesson I Ever Learned
The Greatest Lesson I Ever Learned “To love another person is to see the face of God.” –Victor Hugo Read those words again, because they absolutely changed my life. This is both the most valuable and the most painful lesson I ever learned. These are words that led me to see the
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GOD THOU ART LOVE by Robert Browning
If I forget, Yet God remembers! If these hands of mine Cease from their clinging, yet the hands divine Hold me so firmly that I cannot fall; And if sometimes I am too tired to call For Him to help me, then He reads the prayer Unspoken in my heart, and lifts my care. God,
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On art
I fancy myself to be a work of art. Maybe I’m back in the Louvre, with thousands of tourists shuffling by on their way to the Mona Lisa… or maybe I’m the Mona Lisa, watching the crowd shuffle their way forward so they can take their picture with me. Perhaps I am framed in an
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What’s wrong with white Jesus?
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory…” -John 1:14 You’ve seen them everywhere: banners in Times Square, porcelain crosses in church buildings, Renaissance art, “The Passion of the Christ,” and hundreds of picture-books for children. Western culture has long been saturated with images and representations of Jesus
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