Other Publications

  • To Religious Rejects Everywhere (A Four-Part Blog Series for Whosoever.org)

    In a first for J.J. and for the progressive online faith magazine, Whosoever, J.J. writes a four-part blog series that accompanies the chapters in his book. This series is a great introduction and invitation to engage with the four topics in Reclaiming Church: deconstructing ideas about God, the Bible, sexuality, and the church.

  • A Devotional in, Keep Watch with Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers

    Keep Watch With Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers is a collaborative daily devotional featuring diverse contributors: black, white, LGBTQ, Latinx, Palestinian, incarcerated, Native American, Australian, Americans, Irish, South African, clergy, laity, activists, authors, organizers, and more. The season of Advent, as the church prepares for the birth of Christ, is a penitential season of reckoning with our need and the needs of the world. Keep Watch With Me offers stories, reflections, prayers, and spiritual practices to sustain and challenge the faith of those who work for justice and peace, and long for the coming of God with us.

  • March 21 Devotional, HRC Lenten Devotional Series

    The Lenten Devotional is a faith-filled resource that compiles meditations written by 47 faith leaders from across the United States. This project and other public education work with faith leaders in HRC's Project One America states and HRC's Faith and Religion Program is made possible in part by the generous support of the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.

  • Chapter 23 in, Where Do We Go From Here: Honest Responses from 24 United Methodist Leaders

    Following the February 2019 session of The United Methodist General Conference, many United Methodists returned to their Sunday School classes, worship services and small groups, asking the same question: “Where do we go from here?” In Where Do We Go From Here?: Honest Responses From Twenty-Four United Methodist Leaders, four bishops, several pastors, laypersons, campus ministers, students, general board directors and others share their honest responses to the question, “Where do we go from here?