David P. Gushee
David P. Gushee is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by David P. Gushee
On the worst shooting rampage in modern America
By David P. Gushee — June 12, 2016
On the first Islamist terror attack that was also a hate crime against LGBT people.
A retreat into silence amid our culture’s ugly noise
By David P. Gushee — May 16, 2016
Vulgarity, meanness, conflict. Lather, rinse, repeat. Unless we choose silence.
The Methodists gather to argue about gay people again
By David P. Gushee — May 12, 2016
It's a titanic clash, tragic, unresolvable, filled with conflict and pain.
Help Wanted: President of the United States
By David P. Gushee — May 9, 2016
If interested, please make your candidacy known at the earliest possible moment.
Trump victory marks major defeat for Christian Right agenda
By David P. Gushee — May 4, 2016
GOIP primary voters chose a man whose agenda and style are the antithesis of the Christian Right.
Christians are ‘called to resist’ Trump
By David P. Gushee — May 1, 2016
(RNS) Why faithfulness to Jesus Christ is at stake in how Christians respond to Donald Trump.
Where have all the grown-ups gone?
By David P. Gushee — April 26, 2016
About the scary decline of all major American institutions.
The legalism spiral in religion
By David P. Gushee — April 21, 2016
To fixate on the letter of the law is to miss out on grace. But rejecting all limits isn't the answer.
Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and the pure ideologue
By David P. Gushee — April 18, 2016
When will this hardline fever break so our politics can deal with the world’s real complexities?
When conscientious differences threaten our relationships
By David P. Gushee — April 11, 2016
Both convictions and relationships are precious. Which gives way when they utterly conflict with each other?
When religion makes people worse (COMMENTARY)
By David P. Gushee — April 6, 2016
(RNS) We all say we believe in Jesus, but what we make of that belief is so irreconcilably different I am not sure that we are members of the same religious community.
When religion makes people worse
By David P. Gushee — April 5, 2016
About toxic religion that hurts people and drives them away from faith.
Reactionary Christianity wins in North Carolina, loses in Georgia
By David P. Gushee — March 31, 2016
Why anti-LGBT laws motivated by faith are bad for everyone, including Christians who support them.
Taming our hungers, for God
By David P. Gushee — March 27, 2016
What I learned from giving up alcohol and dessert for Lent.
Why was Jesus killed?
By David P. Gushee — March 23, 2016
What do you see when you look at the Cross?
