Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie

(Warning: explicit/hateful language)

Everyday, I get voice messages, texts, and emails from people just like this: people who reject Jesus and who follow Donald Trump instead as they embrace the false Gospel of white Christian nationalism.

Jesus says, blessed are the peacemakers. Trump embraces war. Jesus says, blessed are the merciful. Trump rejects mercy. Jesus says whatever we do to the least of these, we do to him. Trump cuts food assistance and health care for children and their families and uses the money to pay for tax cuts for the richest of the rich.

Jesus’ teaching should challenge us, not send us into a rage.

This Holy Week, reject those who reject Jesus and who follow Donald Trump instead.

Remarks from Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie at the Portland Impeach and Remove Rally by Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie

Donald Trump incites bigotry, hatred and violence. Voicemails left by his supporters prove that point. Listen in.

Remarks from the Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie at the Citywide Interfaith Vigil of Prayer & Action to End Gun Violence & Overcome Hate & White Supremacy in Portland, Oregon.

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie: All of us should be impatient with the slow pace of change, but frustration cannot lead to paralyzation. Hope dies when we stop seeking a better and more just world. Even in our darkest moments, hope can still exist if we recognize that “hope that helps us keep the faith, despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing.”

Remarks at Family Promise Shelter Dinner (Washington County, OR) by Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie, university chaplain and director of the Center for Peace and Spirituality at Pacific University.

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie presents a lecture on early understandings of Christmas at the Pacific University PUB Night on December 15, 2018. Dr. Currie serves as university chaplain, director of the Center for Peace and Spirituality, and assistant professor of religious studies at Pacific University. Learn more at http://www.pacificu.edu/CPAS.

Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie reflects on Esther's work for justice, and how that spirit of liberation is needed today on the Supreme Court as allegations are considered against Brett Kavanaugh.

Marilyn Keller sings; Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie preaches at the Lift Every Voice Oregon Ban Assault Weapons rally. Couldn't make it? Sign the petition at: https://action.groundswell-mvmt.org/petitions/ban-assault-weapons-oregon

On Tuesday, Donald Trump will fulfill a Constitutional responsibility of his office by delivering the State of the Union Address before Congress. We can assume that, in Trump parlance, the president will assert that not only is the state of the Union strong but that it is better than under any president in the history of the Union. That would be incorrect.