by Durrell Watkins
Senior Minister
Sunshine Cathedral
What would Christianity look like if love were its starting point rather than fear?
In Sunshine Theology, Bishop Durrell Watkins presents a vision of Christianity grounded in one enduring conviction: God is omnipresent Love. Drawing on progressive Christianity, New Thought and spiritual humanism, Watkins offers a theology that welcomes questions, embraces human difference and understands spiritual life as a practice of justice, compassion and belonging.
Across twenty-eight chapters, Watkins explores Jesus as a challenger to empire, the Queer Christ, the Bible as a living conversation, the meaning of divine omnipresence, the Christian liturgical year, affirmative prayer and the possibility of recovering from fear-based religion.
This is a book for people who love Christianity, people who have been hurt by it and people who are still trying to decide what they believe. It is also an invitation to imagine a different kind of church: one where questions are welcome, Communion is open and no person is treated as a mistake.
At the heart of Sunshine Theology is a simple affirmation:
You are God’s miracle and not God’s mistake.
