Nadia Bolz-Weber

When I was first putting this blog together, someone pointed me to Nadia. I became a fan.

"As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.

- Nadia Bolz-Webber.   

"(Gay) men and women are not projects. If you don't really love them, shut the Hell up. If you have no genuine love, if you have no genuine affection, then I don't understand what you're doing. It's like you're working a project or something, like you want the big gay victory of; "A gay man converted!" If you really don't love someone or have genuine care for their soul, their mind and their being, be quit man! You're making a mess of stuff."

-Pastor Matt Chandler, who believes homosexuality is prohibited in the Bible, on Christians who quote the "clobber passages" to gays.

"In other words, the most notorious, plain, and victorious truth of God is that God participates in our history - even yours and mine. Our history - all our anxieties - have become the scene of His presence and the matter of his care. We are safe. We are free. Wherever we turn we shall discover that God is already there. Therefore, wherever it be, fear not, be thankful, rejoice, and boast of God."

- William Stringfellow

"Most of the bible should just be replaced with one simple command:

Don't be a jerk.

Love god with all your heart, put all your faith in god, and don't be a jerk.

...church would be like 20 minutes long, mostly singing."



-Anonymous comment

From the horse's mouth

"I don’t. Not if they don’t want to be fired. And I can affirm this by the emails I’ve received from evangelical college professors who affirm gay relations and rights based on their own academic work, but are unable to publicly state that because they’d be fired."

-F.F. Bruce

Considered one of the greatest Evangelical scholars on the inerrancy of the New Testament when asked if there's freedom to come to whatever conclusions with homosexuality in scholarship while in a Christian college or seminary.

"When He [God] talks of their [humans] losing their selves, He only means abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever. Hence, while He is delighted to see them sacrificing even their innocent wills to His, He hates to see them drifting away from their own nature for any other reason."

C.S. Lewis ("The Screwtape Letters")

The Church needs to pray for common sense when it comes to talking to the world in a normal way, but it's just so hard for them to do that. I've learned God isn't strange or spooky, so why make Him out that way? He talked about the eternal when He scratched the back of His hand and washed His hair when He wasn't washing feet. I hate all this "Spiritism" we Christians seem to be hung up on. It takes away from the dirty, grimy, hard work we need to do to reach the lost in the shit wells of this world. Please, hold off on wanting a revival in your churches you think you need to take you to some kind of spiritual stratosphere, you already don't have your feet on the ground as it is.

- me

Please help yourself to some pan dulce while you contemplate my deep spiritual insight.

"Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?"

-Annie Dillard

"Ignorance is excusable when it is borne like a cross, but when it's wielded like an ax with moral indignation, then it becomes something else."

-Flannery O' Connor

Veronica praised God that Home Depot had so many resources for her ministry to the gay community.