Oh God, Where Art Thou
It’s the middle of 2022, pandemics linger, wars are underway, economic equity is distant, human and individual rights teeter on a pinpoint, even the planet itself is reeling with extreme disasters heading towards collapse. Moreover, people are becoming overwhelmed. Even those who try to ignore the greater world’s problems and focus on themselves are losing…
Franklin Graham gets a smack down from Piers Morgan for anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
“It’s a sin.” That’s the message from anti-LGBTQ evangelical leader Franklin Graham about same-sex relationships, same-sex marriage, and sex between two men or two women in a new interview with Piers Morgan. The good news? “God loves the homosexual.” Graham, the fire and brimstone-breathing son of deceased former evangelical media giant Billy Graham, is on…
WWJD: Exploring the stigma of testing and living with HIV in faith communities
National HIV Testing Day is June 27. It’s one of many HIV/AIDS awareness days designed to reduce the stigma of testing and living with HIV. The day is also about bringing awareness to an epidemic that has already lasted 40 years too long. In some parts of the southern United States, where the Christian religion…
Let the church look in the mirror
My father taught me how to see. My daughter is teaching me how to see more fully. As a boy, my dad learned how to observe the people, places and events of the world from the vantage point of the small town in Georgia where he was raised. He saw beyond what was right in…
Former Charlotte Televangelist and PTL head Jim Bakker says Florida anti-LGBTQ law ‘getting preachers killed’
Televangelist Jim Bakker, 82, a convicted felon and Tammy Faye Bakker’s ex-husband is claiming that Christian pastors are being murdered while ranting about Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law. “They will kill us in our pulpits,” Bakker said on his evangelical talk and variety show. “You don’t believe me? They’re already doing it. “They call it…
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