It’s the Queer Bits That Save Us

Michael Warner, in Fear of a Queer Planet, defines queer as “resistance to the regimes of the normal.”  I can’t think of a better way to describe life in God.  Yet we see in our examination of these two early churches, the Jerusalem church described in Acts and the Beloved Community of the Johannine literature, an attempt to focus on …

Love and Justice (and Babies!)

It has been a hectic week with a surprise trip to Las Vegas to help take care of my new niece and nephew while their mother (my sister-in-law) recovers in the hospital after a rough delivery.  She is improving and the kids are sure to be the smartest, kindest, beautifulest people the world has ever known.  I’m back in town …