Since the earliest days of Christianity, one thing we Christians have proven ourselves great at is splintering ourselves seven ways to Sunday, so to speak. We profess to follow Jesus the Christ, who wanted to draw the world to him – but in our day-to-day practice, at best we seem to be sending mixed signals
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Let us start with a definition according to “Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”. Now there are lots of other -isms’s that could be brought up which are just as brutal, unfair, and theologically incorrect. However, if we could just get to a place where we really understand what “racism” is and where it takes us, then
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As I write this blog my heart is broken, my mind is filled with rage and my emotions are all over the block. The cause is simple, our LGBTQI youth are being let down by the very people who ought to be holding them up and supporting them. Once again, the youth of our community
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A few years back a good friend of mine who also is a pastor lamented to me one day he wished the “gay community” would just not be so “in your face” about our issues. We had a pretty loud conversation, fight, and argument that ended with me stomping out of his office and back
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What shall we write about this week? It is not like there isn’t a whole mess of topics to pick from. There is the whole Karen Handel power grab under the guise of “family values”. There was some idiot from the political right caught on camera saying that Rachel Maddow was the best excuse he
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I was digging around for something to write about for this week’s blog, and came across the blog I wrote for the last election cycle. I am not sure if I am happy to have found it. We have indeed made history by electing the black person to the office of the President of the
Let me start by saying there is no one who is running for the Presidency of the United States on the Republican side of the aisle that is going to be helpful to the LGBTQIA community. In fact, the vast majority of them if they get their way are flat dangerous to our community. We
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Since it is the end of the year and everybody seems to be doing a list. I thought I would jump in with one of my own. Please understand, I am writing this from my point of view as a follower of Jesus. If that is not the path you follow I pray after you
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Well, we are nine days away from what Christians have come to call Christmas. I find it hard to understand and almost laughable at how twisted and screwed up this “church” celebration of it’s founder has become. I want to share this obvious observation: Even if there were some remote chance I could become pope…they
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My coming out days were lived out in Chicago, Illinois (1965-1982). I also came out prior to HIV/AIDS being part of our everyday lives. During my time in Chicago, the gay community was party central but also a close-knit community. Over the years I developed close friendships with a group of people that at its
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