Michael Sam: I Got Your Back
FEB 10, 2014 | BY: JIMMY SPENCER JR. -- When University of Missouri All-American football player Michael Sam announced that he would...
Excerpt: The Nature of Religion (Love Without Agenda)
RED LETTER BOOK CLUB | BY: JIMMY SPENCER JR. -- Religion has a bad reputation—and rightly so. Religion controls. Religion coerces...
Picking Up My Drum: what this white guy learned from Uncle Richard
BY: JIMMY SPENCER JR. -- Thank you Uncle Richard for gathering me to your community. I honor your life as an Elder. I celebrate your life...
4th Anniversary of Dobson's "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America"
BY: JIMMY SPENCER JR. -- Today is the four year anniversary of the Focus on the Family Action’s release of a "Letter...
Let Them Eat Cake
That's what she said.
It wasn't out of malice or even hard-heartedness that Marie Antoinette supposedly uttered these now infamous words, but out of a barnacled ignorance that grows and eventually blinds all ...
Painting Fences and Making Names
Tom Brokaw called them the greatest generation.
My grandfathers were a proud part of a generation that fought Hitler, saved the world from tyranny jumped started the US economy. Not a bad list for a group of ...
Whose Death Does God Cheer?
BY: JIMMY SPENCER JR. -- I'm not a pacifist—but I do not celebrate the death of another human. Even Osama bin Laden...
Digging Deeper: The Coming Evangelical Split
I wrote a short article a few weeks back on the split of Evangelical Christianity. It started out as simply a Facebook note and went viral at online hubs such as Red Letter Christians with Tony Campolo and Chur...
Love Wins: A New Split in Protestant Evangelicalism
BY: JIMMY SPENCER JR. -- There has been an inordinate amount of craziness around Love Wins. Over the past couple years we...
It's Not Just a FREE Book. . .It's a Gift!
Over the past 2 years I have been writing a book called Love Without Agenda: My Journey Out of Consumer Christianity. Last June when my team and I decided that we would be giving away our book to anyone who wan...