Spirituality
Finding Myself Beyond Faith: Joshua Johnson's Journey from Christianity to Self-Acceptance
Joshua Johnson has what he calls a “God-shaped hole” in his heart. The death of Pat Robertson helped put it there.
A journalist, former NPR talk-show host and MSNBC news anchor, Johnson didn’t personally know Robertson, a televangelist who founded “The 700 Club” empire and was an influential figure in conservative Republican politics.
"There is a lot of silence": Two Black Preachers Don't See Viral LGBTQ Affirming Sermons As Trend
In the spring of 2018, Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley, pastor of Alfred Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, preached a sermon entitled, “The Sins of Sodom.”
“When you limit Sodom and Gomorrah to simply a lesson on homosexuality, you have missed three important things,” he states early in the sermon.