Sunshine Cathedral Blog

A Manifesto! The Time Has Come!
by Bishop John Shelby Spong
I have made a decision. I will no longer debate the issue of homosexuality in the church with anyone. I will no longer engage the biblical ignorance that emanates from so many right-wing Christians about how the Bible condemns homosexuality, as if that point of view [...]

Early this summer, Rev. Robert Griffin was invited by Micah Fink of PBS to take part in a taping of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean specifically focusing on homophobia and religion in Jamaica through the outreach of Sunshine Cathedral in Jamaica.
The Pulitzer Center on [...]

Speak Out Against Homophobic Violence
Since 1997 Amnesty International has recorded the murders of more than 35 gay men in Jamaica. 32 incidents of mob violence have been recorded in just the last 18 months. And last week, another gay man was attacked and brutally murdered in that country.
John Terry, a British diplomat living in Jamaica [...]

by Durrell WatkinsSeptember 11, 2009
September 11th – a day that serves to remind us how dangerous religious fanaticism can be. Fundamentalism and the intolerance it breeds, as well as the violence it tends to promote, is dangerous and potentially lethal whether it calls itself Muslim, Hindu, or Christian.
In 2001 I was living about 60 miles [...]

Q&A by the Reverend Doctor Durrell Watkins, Senior Pastor
Question: I have found Sunshine Cathedral to be one of the most positive churches I’ve ever attended. Growing up Catholic I thought we were to be afraid of God and have a low opinion of ourselves, but the message seems to be the just the opposite here. [...]

On Friday, August 21st, delegates to the National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to “find a way for people in publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous same-gender relationship” to serve as officially recognized ministers of that church body, effectively equalizing the norms and standards applying to heterosexual and homosexual clergy alike.
“We rejoice with [...]

by Rev. Donna Schaper, Senior Minister, Judson Memorial Church (NYC)
If one more person says to me that they have ignored or ill-attended their spiritual life, I will scream. I will scream softly, but I will nevertheless scream. Why? Because it is not a big deal to find a spiritual way. Visit a worshipping congregation — [...]

Arthur Nobile, Jr., will be featured in concert at the Sunshine Cathedral on Saturday, August 22nd, at 8:00 pm. Tickets are available online here or in the Cathedral office.

The Reverend Doctor Durrell Watkins, Senior Pastor of Sunshine Cathedral MCC in Fort Lauderdale, FL, reads a statement responding to the shooting in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday evening, August 1, 2009, which killed at least three people and injured at least 10 others.