Evangelical therapists have a First Amendment right to engage in “conversion therapy” with LGBTQ clients despite solid medical evidence that such treatment is ineffective, according to the U.S. Supreme Court. In an 8-1 ruling March 31, the high court ruled…
Most-read opinion piece called out evangelicals’ hypocrisy
Baptist News Global’s most-read opinion pieces this year were connected in various ways to President Donald Trump and authoritarianism. Readers also showed interest in articles about Calvinist preacher John MacArthur and Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk, both of whom died in…
Queer & Christian: Reclaiming our faith for today and tomorrow
What does it mean to be a Christian in the 21st century? What do our lives of faith look like? Our evangelism? What do we, as followers of Jesus, have to offer the world around us? How do we best…
Love led me out of the closet
There are thousands of young LGBTQ Christians across the country sitting in church pews, overwhelmed by anxiety and shame. Each week, they hear sermons suggesting their identity —something they did not choose and cannot change — is a barrier to…
Ask Brandan: What’s it like to be a queer Christian?
Pastor, author and activist Brandan Robertson had no desire to write another book when he was approached by his publisher to write on being queer and Christian. However, the result surprisingly meets the unexpected moment we’re in. In Queer &…
Trump didn’t take his oath on a Bible: What that means
We all saw it: President-Elect Donald Trump raised his right hand to take the oath of office for the second time, while Melania Trump slowly approached him, holding two Bibles. Yet, as Trump recited the Oath of Office, he never…
The Widening of God’s Mercy: A reflection
“There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,” says the old hymn by Frederick William Faber, “like the wideness of the sea.” Millions of Christians have sung this song in their churches since it was written in 1862, basking in the magnitude…
The healing ‘heresy’ of Richard Hays
As an LGBTQ Christian, one of the realities that has perplexed me from the very beginning of my journey to reconcile my faith and my sexuality was the insistence of Christians, particularly Catholics and evangelicals, that our theologies of sexuality…
To queer or not to queer, that is the question
When it comes to debating LGBTQ inclusion in the church, most folks think the debate is only about whether gays and lesbians can be Christians and whether they and their B, T and Q cohorts should be allowed full participation…
A Christian response to the war in Israel/Palestine
The war between Israel and Hamas has been front and center over the past week. The world watched as violent terrorists shot rockets into Israel, kidnapped civilians and beheaded children in an act of barbarism the world has not seen…
The Bible says nothing about queer people
For far too long the LGBTQ community has conceded Christianity to traditionalists and conservatives, allowing them to perpetuate the narrative that the Bible is clearly anti-LGBTQ and that being queer is a sin. But the truth is that most of…
The death and resurrection of Donald Trump: A warning
It is at once completely unsurprising, but also completely shocking. During Holy Week, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R.-Ga., was being interviewed after a rally she held in New York City to protest the arraignment of Donald Trump. In the…