Posts from the Blog of an (un)Tamed Cynic
Earlier this week I saw this story about a small PC(USA) congregation in Los Angeles with a gay pastor that decided to leave the denomination to join the more progressive United Church of Christ. It is an interesting counterpoint to the more typical narrative: conservative churches leaving the denomination because of the church’s growing acceptance [...]
I spent last week in Washington, DC for a conference called Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity. Though I wasn’t sure I would be able to attend until the last minute, I had been looking forward to this conference for a year or so. It promised to bring together the two theological areas [...]
I’m not a big fan of “gotcha” journalism and political smear campaigns. But in today’s media-saturated world, politicians must expect that every aspect of their lives will be fair game. Do I think that what Mitt Romney did when he was in high school should impact what voters think about him today? No, not really. [...]
Like many people, I couldn’t believe my eyes last week when I first saw the controversial Time magazine cover about attachment parenting. When I showed it to my wife, she had an immediately negative reaction, especially when I explained that the boy in the picture is nearly four years old. But as I played Devil’s [...]
Reading: 1 Corinthians 7:25-31 Reflection It’s no easy thing for 21st century people of faith to consult religious writings from the first century on matters of sexual ethics—or any ethics for that matter. It doesn’t take much historical digging to conclude that the social, political, and religious contexts of these two time periods are very [...]
