Jay Bakker

[afleitch]

This post is more about a person than a faith but I thought I'd bring it up.

Jay Bakker is the son of Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner. Now Tammy Faye was a woman with many faults but it seemed she had a good heart and found some peace towards the end of her life.

Her son is also a preacher. I have an ingrained wariness of anyone who preaches, But I read up on him and I saw this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s30ZKjNfRlU

Now I hate that style - but he was pretty straight with his audience. And despite my wariness of that; I saw a real message from the heart there.

[Torie]

The tattoos on his arm put me off. I could not get past that. He is not a very organized preacher either. He's afraid of his congregation.

[JSojourner]

I am actually glad for the congregation's response.  If he had said this just ten, or even five, years ago -- I suspect he would have been physically removed or attacked.

Good for him.  And that took guts.  It may be the fashionable, politically correct thing to believe in Hollywood.  But to stand up in front of a crowd of Evangelicals and say it is courageous.  Even if you don't agree with him (and I do), you have to respect it.