
Defending a Monster
We all make mistakes. Every one of us can recall times when our judgment was temporarily clouded; when our emotions betrayed us and in a moment of weakness or fear or

We all make mistakes. Every one of us can recall times when our judgment was temporarily clouded; when our emotions betrayed us and in a moment of weakness or fear or

(Evangelical trigger warning: heresy, blasphemy.) I remember the precise moment I stopped believing in hell. Over a decade ago I was at a Christmas dinner party in the home of a gay

Hell hath no fury like religious people getting religion horribly wrong, and what’s worse, we usually don’t have a clue that we’ve lost the plot when we have. There are lots of

There are three words guaranteed to strike fear in the hearts of most Conservative Christians—especially the men: Sex, Sexuality, Gender. Any one of these subjects, whether spoken of explicitly or peripherally, is

We all make mistakes. Every one of us can recall times when our judgment was temporarily clouded; when our emotions betrayed us and in a moment of weakness or fear or

(Evangelical trigger warning: heresy, blasphemy.) I remember the precise moment I stopped believing in hell. Over a decade ago I was at a Christmas dinner party in the home of a gay

Hell hath no fury like religious people getting religion horribly wrong, and what’s worse, we usually don’t have a clue that we’ve lost the plot when we have. There are lots of

There are three words guaranteed to strike fear in the hearts of most Conservative Christians—especially the men: Sex, Sexuality, Gender. Any one of these subjects, whether spoken of explicitly or peripherally, is