Time for Christianity to Rediscover its Identity
It’s not news to anybody that Christianity has an image problem these days. I’d say it goes back...
GOD-TALK
Faith and Hope in the Queer Christ
My name is Rev. Richard Bowles, I’m the Associate Minister of Simplicity Christian Church, a small progressive congregation...
Queer Transfiguration
I was recently ordained as a minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination on February 8,...
It’s Never Too Late
“And Abram was 75 years old when he set out from Haran” (Gen 12:4). Sometimes things just hit...
While You Were Talking: Doing Spirituality Together
I was having lunch with an old friend a while back. We don’t do that as much as...
Fascist Transfiguration
T he thing about fascism is that its insecurities are actually extremely transparent. The more that a regime...
Queer Christmas Punk Theology
Christmas is actually super queer and the heteronormative world of enforced categories doesn’t want to hear about it....
Magnificat, my ass
Had a weird moment in church today. Someone was reading the Magnificat — Mary’s spontaneous, prophetic words of...
On Christian Nationalism & The Parting of the Ways
I t has been a year of fascist overreach and white Christian Nationalist lust for power. At the start...
“Christian” No Longer Works
Words matter. They are the symbols by which we communicate our thoughts, feelings, and identities to our neighbors....