Not/Christian
In an earlier missive, So, Like, Are You a Christian?, I expressed my impatience with being pigeonholed into religious categories. In this diary, I'm going to follow up on that photo diary with a more...
View ArticleI don't know who you are, but THANK YOU!
It's the tail end of a long day that began with getting to work at 7:30 AM, working until 6, $8/hour, no overtime, and having to hang around after work to stop by a Free Clinic to get the results of a...
View ArticleGood Riddance 2011
What a crappy year.I don't think I've been so happy to see a year depart in a while.I'm looking back on it as a year that was sucked away by facing some inner demons. I suppose that was necessary, and...
View ArticleABC features lesbian African-American minister
In a feature, Holiday Homophobia: Is it Christian to Reject Gay Partners? ABC news interviewed Marilyn Bowens, a lesbian African-American minister, who recounts her experiences of exclusion from family...
View ArticleGuantanamo: 10-year anniversary actions
Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo prison. In response, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture is putting on events around the country.In Washington, DC, Action...
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The Rest of My Life Will Suck. I Have No Regrets.
For the last three years, I've been trying to find my way into an academic job. That's what I'm trained for. I go through phases where I start to give up that idea and try to sort out what other...
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: Between Two Holinesses
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may...
View ArticleCatholic Faculty Stand Up for Contraception
Commonweal reports that faculty at John Carroll University, a Catholic institution, have requested that the school's president include contraception coverage in the university's insurance and stand up...
View ArticlePremier Historian of Liberal Theology discusses Occupy Movement
Gary Dorrien is the author of the magisterial three-volume survey of American liberal theology, The Making of American Liberal Theology, Volume 2, Vol 3. He describes his understanding of the Occupy...
View ArticleTucson Faith Communities Go Green
According to a Tucson Sentinel article, Tucson Churches Join Movement linking Religion, Sustainability, various faith communities in the Tuscon region are switching to renewable energy.You can see them...
View ArticleWe're Not a Christian Nation, Mr. Aitken
As you can see on the rec list, the canard that "America was founded as a Christian nation" has made it to the level of presidential primary discourse. There's one particular historical instance that...
View ArticleGay Brigham Young U. Students Come Out
This is how change begins. Remains to be seen where this goes, but the conversation that's been happening behind closed doors in the Mormon Church since Proposition 8 has just gone to YouTube.
View ArticleSisters and Brothers: Strange Resurrections
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may...
View ArticleWichita Church Hears Gay-Friendly Lecture
Matthew Vines is a 21-year-old gay Christian man who took a year off college to study the question of homosexuality and the Bible, and delivered his results in an hour-long lecture to a United...
View ArticleTwo Recent Faith Critiques of Religious Interference with Gov't Assistance
First, megachurch pastor Joel Hunter has looked at the facts and voiced that it is impossible for churches to do all the work that the government does in assisting the poor, according to an article on...
View ArticleMormon Bishop apologizes to LGBT community
Kevin Kloosterman is a bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints. A bishop in the LDS is the leader of a local ward (congregation), not the equivalent to a bishop in the Catholic,...
View ArticleSisters and Brothers
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may...
View ArticleThoughts on Bible Classes
For the last several months, I have been tutoring two kids, brothers, aged 11 and 14 in Bible. They're homeschooled, but come from a non-religious family. Although I am a theologian, I am not...
View ArticlePPP: Ohio African-Americans more supportive of gay marriage.
From Public Policy Polling-Voters in Ohio are still opposed to gay marriage, but they've moved quite a bit on the issue over the last eight months. 37% think it should be legal to 50% who believe it...
View ArticleThis science/religion question wasn't posed to me, but
I'm going to try to answer it anyway.In a recent diary, Va1kyrie askedOut of curiosity... (0+ / 0-) (...and now I find I have a hard time framing the question without sounding like a standard atheist...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye.
Over the last twenty years, I've worked with strands of liberation theology and liberal theology, both of which aim to bring faith down to earth and aim our hopes for a better future toward a just...
View ArticleDear Mr. Bezos: Pay Your Workers Before You Support Me
According to the NYT: Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos pledges $2.5 million for gay marriage in Washington State.Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, and his wife, MacKenzie, have agreed to...
View ArticleSo, how did a nice gay boy like you become a theologian?
A couple of years ago, I defended a dissertation in theology, and am struggling to establish a career as a professional theologian. I am also an openly gay man. Of course, many queer folk have vexed...
View ArticlePh.D. to Food Stamps
In 2010, I earned a Ph.D. in theology. Within a year, I was on food stamps. I'm not alone. According to the latest records, there are 33, 655 people in my position.In my case, the issue has been...
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Sisters and Brothers
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language,...
View ArticleMORE prominent Christians COOL with Evolution (and a little on why we don't...
Several months back, I tried to bash the historical reality of a pervasive theological affirmation of evolutionary theory into the oversimplified narrative of religion against science. I've seen...
View ArticleLook, Everyone! I published a book!
Today is the release date of Voices of Feminist Liberation: Writings in Celebration of Rosemary Radford Ruether, which I co-edited with Emily Silverman and Whitney Bauman. It was very much a labor of...
View ArticleSisters and Brothers: Invitation to Wisdom
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may...
View ArticleRIP Beverly Wildung Harrison
I have been meaning to write a diary on Beverly Wildung Harrison's breathtaking - and inexcusably out-of-print - book Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion for some time now. I just...
View ArticleSisters and Brothers: Prayers for the Evening
Centering: Meredith Monk, Gotham LullabyWelcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses...
View ArticleCarter Heyward: Lesbian Relational Theologian
"Relational theology" is a line of thought in contemporary theology. It has gone in a direction I am not very happy with. Steering the conversation back to one of its original voices, Carter Heyward,...
View ArticleMuslim Women in National Legislatures
One of the classic strategies of Western colonialism is "white men protecting brown women from brown men," in the words of post-colonial theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. (Handy discussion on PDF.)...
View ArticleGaia and God: As Global Warming News Ramps Up
I've spent the weekend feeling fairly depressed, much of which I think is a reaction to recent news about how imminent a real global warming catastrophe is, about the fact that for Brazil, it's already...
View ArticleMininstryOfTruth Needs Help (NYC)
I just saw this tweet and received MinistryOfTruth's permission to post something:Been effectively homeless for over a month now. I have money to rent a room if only I could find a room I can afford—...
View ArticleRereading "Black Theology and Black Power" After Twenty Years
"How many of Cone's books have you read?"Ever since Jeremiah Wright posed that question to Sean Hannity eight years ago, I've been meaning to write a diary on James Cone, the premier figure of Black...
View ArticleJay Smooth preaches it - Sanders/BLM
Just leaving this here, because Jay Smooth is always a voice to hear.That is all.
View ArticleWays to Reduce Harm in a Shooting Event
I teach at a college. Given the unabated stream of shootings at schools and workplaces, I'm going to start including the five steps of "How to Survive a Mass Shooting" in my syllabi. I'm almost...
View ArticleStill disoriented
Slowly getting the hang of some things. For a while, I was too disoriented to even know how to identify what was disorienting me. Saw some comments in kos’s latest diary that helped me figure it out...
View ArticleAmplifying Some Progressive Muslims
Not being a Muslim, I have zero say in what counts as “true Islam.” Here, I’d just like to alert Daily Kos readers to some of the Muslim thinkers who advance liberal, modernist, or progressive...
View ArticleGay Imam Opens Online Islamic School to Foster LGBT Acceptance
Daayie Abdullah is the first openly gay imam in the United States. He's been profiled by Al Jazeera and The Daily Beast. Abdullah was raised as a Baptist in Detroit and converted to Islam while...
View ArticleShia Holiest Site a Place for Interfaith Affirmation
As Daesch continues its murderous rampage in the name of an exclusionary interpretation of Islam, another Iraqi Islamic institution is giving traction to an inclusive practice of religious cooperation....
View Article"It's not just 'be nice.'" Teaching MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
The bulk of my bread and butter student loan payments come from a class I teach at a Catholic women’s college, “Introduction to Christian Ethics.” One of the texts I teach regularly is Martin Luther...
View ArticleIt's only Monday, at lunch time, but I think everyone needs a beer.
Help yourself….Starting off with Leienkugel's Summer Shandy because I miss my college days in Chicago.My goodness, my Guinness, for those who like stouts.Whatever this is, it looks fun!The first time I...
View ArticleNew book on gay theology, by yours truly.
One biblical story that turns up often in LGBT work to change religious norms is the story of David and Jonathan from the books of Samuel. Part of a larger story of King David’s rise to power, the...
View ArticleLiberal Mosque Opens in Berlin
From ABC News:As of Friday, Germany has its first explicitly liberal mosque.Seyran Ates' vision of a liberal mosque where all Muslims can pray together — women and men, Sunni and Shiite, straight and...
View ArticleThe Religious Left: Carter Heyward
If you don’t like triangulators, Carter Heyward may appeal to you. Heyward was one of a group of eleven women who broke the barrier to women’s ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in...
View ArticlePro-Evolutionary Theology: 19th-Century Voices
So, it looks like Rick Perry is going to be shoving creationism down our throats for the rest of the campaign season. Lovely. This, of course, is wearying to me as a theologian because it will only...
View ArticleReligion on the Ground: Interfaith Worship Doubles since 9/11
A Christian Science Monitor article From Fear of Islam to Outreach notes thatOver the past 10 years, the percentage of US congregations involved in interfaith worship has doubled – from 7 to 14...
View ArticleThe Evening Before ...
I'm looking forward to the outpouring of solidarity tomorrow, with some apprehension of what the police will be doing when I arrive downtown Oakland tomorrow.In the meantime, I'm drifting around...
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