Heresy isn’t the enemy in TikTok pastor’s new book
(RNS) — The label “heretic” doesn’t faze Brandan Robertson.
“I’m not interested in playing the orthodoxy game,” the TikTok pastor told Religion News Service in a recent phone call. Once an evangelical darling, today Robertson is known to his 195.5K followers as an openly gay Christian pastor “making Christianity queer again,” per his TikTok bio.
When Robertson, 30, isn’t posting videos critiquing conversion therapy or Christian nationalism, he is focusing on his Ph.D. in religion at Drew Theological School in Madison, New Jersey, or leading Metanoia Church, a digital spiritual community that emerged during the pandemic. In his latest book, “Dry Bones and Holy Wars: A Call for Social and Spiritual Renewal,” Robertson draws from sermons he delivered during the Trump presidency to encourage young progressives to take heart and take action. By engaging Scripture without fear of “getting it wrong,” Robertson hopes readers who have been disenchanted by biblical texts will be inspired by them once again.
