Jesus
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
In this 2007 interview with PBS’ Bill Moyers, James Cone argues that the lynching of African-Americans throughout the 19th and 20th centuries was an almost literal crucifixion because “the cross was a first century lynching.” Lynching, like the crucifixion, was a… Continue reading
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Examining Our Consciences In Light of Structural Sin
This is my attempt to envision an examination of conscience that more explicitly deals with the intersection between interpersonal and structural-social sin. NOTE: The absence of certain “traditional” sins, like masturbation, for example, is not in itself a statement about… Continue reading
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Who Are the Soldiers of the Body of Christ?
Ever since the beginning of the war on terror, I have been hearing some version of the following prayed as a petition during mass: “for the safety of our troops.” Sometimes, the prayer has also identified “our” troops as those… Continue reading
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It’s Adam and Eve AND Adam and Steve
Often, the fact that, in Scripture, the first human beings were a man (Adam) and a woman (Eve) and that this man and woman had a sexual relationship is assumed to be clear and irrefutable evidence that homosexuality is wrong.… Continue reading
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For I Was Sick, and You Didn’t Prevent My Family From Visiting Me
I freely admit that’s not the most defensible rephrasing of Matthew 25 — it’s hard to get an argument for the stable nuclear family out of the gospels, and expanding the gender configurations of such families doesn’t diminish that (Jesus… Continue reading
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Protected: “Deus Caritas Est” and the Queerness of God’s Love
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading
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We Are Still Gentiles: Another Look at Hauerwas and Pinches’ “Christians Among the Virtues”
While I love reading Hauerwas’ (the man who wants Protestants to be more Catholic and Catholics to be more like Mennonites) critique of American Christians idolatrous devotion to the nation-state and its war machine, there are a few things about… Continue reading