In a public statement in 1984 (and thereafter in various writings), well-known liberal Protestant pastor and theologian William Sloane Coffin said, “It behooves us North American Christians to realize now what the German churches learned too late [in the 1940s]: it is not enough to resist with confession; we must confess with resistance.” That prophetic call is as relevant today as when Coffin, in the context of the Sanctuary Movement, said it over 40 years ago. The Queer God Squad discusses today the need to “confess with resistance” as the church of Jesus Christ.
