July 24, 1983 Kansas City, MO Forty years ago today, I was an eleven year old boy who was obsessed with baseball, and with George Howard Brett - third basemen for my hometown KC Royals. That day as the Royals played the Yankees in the Bronx at Yankee Stadium, I was in my living room …
Tag: theology
Wait, that’s in the Bible?!?
In this post, I would like to highlight some of the things that can be found in the Bible that fundamentalists and evangelicals often have no idea about. Pointing these things out to them often sends them into extreme mental gymnastics as they wrestle with the new information that upends their long held assumptions and …
More advanced praise for Theological Musings
Volume one of my forthcoming collection of essays will be released in August by Quoir Publishing. In his book “Theological Musings” author Dillon Cruz identifies his calling to Public Theology which he defines as “the disciplined articulation of Christian Theologies and faith praxis contributing to interdisciplinary and diverse search for a common public good.” There …
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The importance of the first amendment
Right wing ideologues have been trying to create the Constitution in their own image in much the same way they have created an authoritarian, hate-filled God in their image. They insist that separation of church and state is not in the Constitution as Lauren Boebert did during her reelection campaign at a speech she made …
Advanced praise for Theological Musings
The first volume of my collection of essays entitled Theological Musings: Collected Essays of a Tattooed Theologian comes out in August from https://quoir.com/. The collection covers a variety of topics from public theology to racism and anti-LGBTQIA bigotry. Early reviews are in and I'm quite humbled by what is being said. This remarkable many-faceted volume …
The heresy of Christian nationalism
Christian nationalists are making a lot of noise these days on social media and elsewhere about wanting to set up a Christian theocracy in the United States because they don't like things such as "wokism" or "gender ideology" which in turn is because they're pro-bigotry. Take William E. Wolfe who served as the Deputy Assistant …
Leviticus 18:22 – a primer
Leviticus is one of the books in the Jewish Torah and the Christian Old Testament. Chapter 18 of the book deals with a variety of sexual issues that the authors felt were important to Israelites in the Ancient Near East. Leviticus 18:22 is one of the "clobber passages" that Christians have often weaponized to use …
Social justice is a Christian imperative Dr. Peterson
Dr. Jordan Peterson, the clinical psychologist and author beloved by many conservatives, is widely known for his crusade against social justice, the tyranny of using a person's preferred pronouns, his extreme misogyny and gender essentialism, his rejection of identity politics -i.e. he believes that white privilege is not real despite all the evidence showing that …
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Capitalism kills: A brief theological exploration of the love of money
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. 1 Timothy 6:10 Our economic system is capitalistic and it has been since Europeans first invaded the North American continent centuries ago. …
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Whither love?
Christians are often broadly painted with the same brush by people as a large homogeneous group. When I was immersed in the fundamentalist's worldview, the term Christians meant the people who believed as I did that the Bible is inerrant, penal substitution was the heart of the gospel, and all nonbelievers were going to suffer …
The Tattooed Theologian 