This week the Rev. Peter J. Gomes died. He was 68. In him were often gracefully reconciled disparate identities: a black man, a Baptist, a Harvard minister, a Republican, and a gay man out before out was conservative cool. We’ve rounded up some links for those of you trying to make sense of a complicated man:
Watch Gomes answer the question, “Would Jesus support gay marriage?” and debate Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi Kushner about the existence of God.
Candace Chellew-Hodge at Religion Dispatches