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The Catholic Church doesn’t need to bless same-gender unions. The Southern Baptist Church doesn’t. The United Methodist Church doesn’t. No church needs to. God already blesses them—that is, if God is love in the way these churches all claim that God is. If God is really love, if that truly is the essence of the Divine, then God is for same-gender marriage, non-heteronormative marriages for the same reason God is for any loving, respectful, interdependent union. If God is love, God is for a mutually-beneficial relationship between two adult people; where they each find connection, affection, and devotion in the...

Two weeks ago, we took a family trip out of state, our first in eighteen months. Three-quarters of us had been fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer shot, with the exception being our 11-year old daughter. We’d been extremely diligent for a year and half (often militant) in taking precautions: isolating and masking and distancing since March of 2020. My wife, 16-year old son, and I all registered for vaccines the first day we were eligible in order to give our family the best chance at protection moving forward. I was ecstatic to get jabbed. We all were....

ohn Pavlovitz, who pastors North Raleigh Community Church in North Carolina, writes a heartfelt letter to white evangelicals: Dear White Evangelicals, I need to tell you something: People have had it with you. They’re done. They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here’s why: They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy. For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity. They watched you...

Have you ever heard of John Pavlovitz?Right. I hadn't heard of him either. Still, thanks to the wonders of the internet, you can quickly learn about him.According to Pavlovitz's online bio, he's a "ministry veteran," which is his weird way of saying that he's been a practicing minister for a while. He says that he is "trying to figure out how to love people well and to live-out the red letters of Jesus." Get that? He's about "lov[ing] people well." He's also a Leftist darling: Pavlovitz, forty-eight, is a Wake Forest resident, minister at North Raleigh Community Church, and father...