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“Ex-Gay” is Anti-Gay, Disguised as Compassion

By Tanya Erzen

…e should come out of the closet. On an overcast day in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, reporters and protesters far outnumbered the ex-gay supporters in attendance. Jerry Falwell was scheduled to address the audience but at the last minute decided to appear via live telecast where his speech was drowned out by heckles and boos. Michael Johnston, an ex-gay who testified to a newfound heterosexuality after years of being homosexual, hurried out t…

Judgment Day is Coming; Wear Clean Underwear

By Lauri Lebo

…the World won’t be for another six months, according to Harold Camping, a San Francisco-area radio host and the owner of Family Radio. His web site, wecanknow.com, says that Oct. 21 will be the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.” Camping’s followers around the country have been promoting the big day by putting up billboards and driving vehicles with placards. But this is not the first time Camping has predicted Judgment…

Pretty People, Shiny Clothes: Biblical Illiteracy in NBC’s Kings

By Cynthia B. Astle

…s acclamation of David, “Silas has his thousands and David his tens of thousands,” she refers not to conquering enemies, but to crazed fans, or perhaps money. Perhaps the most grating thing about Kings thus far is the unrelenting naiveté of its hero. The TV namesake of Israel’s great king seems a ninny in the face of the glamour and glitz of Silas’ court and his capital, Shiloh (which far more resembles New York or San Francisco than Jerusalem). T…

When Muhammad Ali Met Billy Graham

By Paul Harvey

…slims. We know our current president is one.” Later, after the shooting in San Bernardino, California, Trump called for the banning of all immigration of Muslims until “we know what the hell is going on.” His rise to being the presumed nominee, and his considerable inroads into grassroots evangelical votes, accompanied (and no doubt benefited from) such messages. Around the same time late last year, the Wheaton College political science professor…

The Chilling Response to the Pelosi Attack isn’t Simply a Matter of Partisanship, it’s a Sign of the Right’s Embrace of Fascism

By Annika Brockschmidt

A couple of weeks before the midterm elections, a man broke into the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi, who is second in line to succeed the president, in order to kidnap, torture—and maybe even kill her. She wasn’t home—but her 82-year-old husband Paul was. He managed to call the police before the attacker struck him with a hammer, breaking his skull. The police report shows the clearly premeditated nature of the attack: The attacker had brough…

Sex and the (Hipster) Church—Just a Gimmick?

By Nicole Greenfield

…n’t even there. “Your grace abounds to me, your grace abounds to me,” they sang. “Jesus, in you I find all that I need.” The capacity-crowd of worshippers joined in, arms in the air, and then they prayed. They prayed for marriages, for husbands and for wives, for reconciliation. They prayed for romance and commitment, and for miracles. They prayed for singles, for forgiveness, and for cleansing. Sex was the topic of the night at Hillsong NYC’s mid…

Wilma Mankiller: On the Passing of a Legendary Leader

By Johnny P. Flynn

…er family lands were taken over by the US Army, and they were relocated to San Francisco not long after the end of WWII. Ms. Mankiller sometimes compared her personal history with that of the Cherokee removal. “I cried for days,” she said of a family move to the West coast, “not unlike the children who had stumbled down the Trail of Tears so many years before. I wept tears… tears from my history, from my tribe’s past. They were Cherokee tears.” Sh…

Rolling the Stone Away: LGBTQI Elders Meet the Next Generation of Christian Activists at a Watershed Conference

By Mary E. Hunt

…were described then) founded the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in San Francisco. Well before Stonewall, pastors there took on the police and city officials for their discriminatory behavior toward lesbian, gay, and trans people who simply wanted to have dances or go to bars to meet others. The pastors won. History records that Christian leaders were in the struggle for gay rights from the beginning—a small matter of pride given the enormi…

Facebook Doesn’t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches

By Elizabeth Drescher

…s about the more narrow scope of active Facebook affiliations, despite the number of “friends” a person’s profile page might boast. With regard to churches, Beck reads the data as suggesting that Facebook and other social media are replacing what he believes is the “main draw of the traditional church: social connection and affiliation.” It’s an engaging argument. Beck is certainly right that church is no longer a central gathering place for the m…

Tell It All, Sister! NJ Female PCUSA Pastor Gets Married—To Another Woman!

By David Gillespie

…rtantly, however, the announcement — and the recent case of Lisa Larges in San Francisco Presbytery — focuses attention on that pesky “fidelity and chastity” clause. Not only does it raise the issue of conflicts between state definitions of marriage and ecclesiastical ones, it raises the issue of what exactly “chastity” is. It also raises fundamental questions of sexual ethics for those who look to the collection of documents we call “The Bible” f…