Louisiana, a state ranking near the bottom in multiple categories including education, has drafted legislation that mandates that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in every public school and state funded college or university classroom. It was signed into law by Republican governor Jeff Landry last week. Given Louisiana's woeful rankings for education, economy, public …
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So what.
It's Pride month and that means that the conservative Christians are up in arms once again because the LGBTQ+ community has the temerity to not only exist, but to also say that they deserve the same rights, liberties, and protection from discrimination as everyone else. Some fundamentalist type Christians are bearing false witness by claiming …
“You’re not a theologian…”
Something that happens a lot on social media is that someone will respond to something I have posted with a variant of "You're not a theologian!" Generally this is because I have made a theological claim that contradicts a conservative Christians theological assumptions and beliefs, such as "being LGBTQIA is neither a sin nor a …
Let’s talk about cherry picking the Bible
As a progressive theologian I get accused rather often of cherry picking the Bible. The people who level this accusation at me typically do so because I am so vocal about social justice and in my support for the LGBTQIA community. These conservative Christians claim that because I say that being LGBTQIA is neither a …
Project 2025: Russ Vought’s horrifying vision in chapter two
Project 2025 has been in the news quite a bit lately as more people are awakening to the all too real dangers of American Christian nationalism. As part of my research on Christian nationalism, I've been slowly going through the Project 2025 document which I downloaded from the website before it was removed -- a …
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What the hell? Part 1
The first time I can distinctly remember being told that eternal conscious torment could potentially apply to me was when I was in fourth grade at the tender age of nine. As a result of familial dysfunction and instability, we were living with my maternal grandparents the year I was in fourth grade. One night, …
Lance Wallnau lies and the Project Blitz playbook
This week, so-called prophet of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) Lance Wallnau, tweeted that anti-Christians and anti-nationalists who believe in the existence of NAR Christian Seven Mountains dominionists (like himself) and their agenda to set up a theocratic state in America are as whacky as QAnon supporters.(1) This was a brazen attempt to cover his …
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The ‘Dangerous D’s’ of American fundamentalism
Fundamentalism is dangerous. It does not matter if it is Christian fundamentalism, Hindu fundamentalism, Jewish, Muslim, or the atheistic fundamentalism like that which was espoused by Chairman Mao. Fundamentalism is dangerous because of the propensity to create "in" and "out" groups based upon a person's adherence to or rejection of the fundamentalist dogma espoused by …
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Dr. King’s most important speech
Books have the power to profoundly impact our lives. In 2006, I found an audiobook copy of A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. at my local library. I had some familiarity with King’s work prior to listening to that book, and his autobiography in quick succession, but not much. Those two …
Meet the ‘God Squad’
Comedian and broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts a national radio show called Tell Me Everything on SiriusXM Progress. He has put together a panel of progressive theological thinkers to be featured on the show and it just so happens that I am one of those theological thinkers he invited to take part. Joining me are former …
The Tattooed Theologian 