larson i guess you could call me the late bird

He’s the poster child for everything that’s wrong with American Evangelicalism, and he should step down from his position of authority and receive intense spiritual and pastoral counseling- not the largest salary for the CEO of any relief charity based in the USA. In short, Graham is a complete embarrassment to those who claim the name of Jesus in particular, religion in general, and basic human decency overall. He even went out of his way to defend Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a man credibly accused of attempted sexual assault, violent alcohol use, and participating in gang rape activities. Most of what he has to say is so nonsensically hateful it doesn’t bear repeating-but just to name a few doozies in recent years, Graham has called for Muslims to be barred from entering the United States, boldly proclaimed that the police-enforced lynching of black and brown men and women by the state is a result of their failure to comply with orders, led hundreds of thousands of followers in a boycott of Target not once but twice in an attempt to bully the company into conformity with his conservative gender roles and sexual ethic, and so many more-and much worse-things. His Facebook and Twitter feeds are a never-ending font of racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic and otherwise bigoted vitriol. In the three years since I originally published this piece, he formally endorsed Trump’s campaign for presidency and has spent a huge chunk of internet bandwidth defending the administration’s every horrifying move. Supporting Operation Christmas Child means supporting the “ministry” of Franklin Graham. And Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, appears to be making a valiant attempt to go down in history as the Donald Trump of theology. What I know now that I didn’t know then is that are many, may reasons NOT to participate in Operation Christmas Child, and many alternative organizations you can support that will offer you the opportunity to both truly help someone in need and teach your children about generosity and global poverty, all at the same time.ġ. Many churches I attended throughout my formative years participated in Operation Christmas Child, and many years my family and I dutifully picked up a few shoeboxes and went to the Dollar General in search of what we thought would bring poor children around the world happiness and joy. If you are unfamiliar with Operation Christmas Child, the gist is this: churches distribute pre-printed shoebox-sized cardboard boxes, which are then filled by families with toys, trinkets, and basic necessity items like toothbrushes and shipped off to children in non-first world countries so they can have something to open at Christmas time.

Each and every year around this time, thousands of churches around the country participate in an organization called Operation Christmas Child.

Larson i guess you could call me the late bird