That’s Rev. Dr. Caleb Lines, a full-time rainbow cleric and part-time cosplay theologian currently pastoring University Christian Church in San Diego. He’s also the Co-Executive Director of ProgressiveChristianity.org, which is basically a digital “safe space” for those who say they want Jesus but don’t want His inconvenient moral standards.
Lines is best known for his TikTok homilies, his pastel stole collection, and his tireless work deconstructing anything that even vaguely resembles biblical Christianity. If it’s sacred, he’ll profane it. If it’s clear, he’ll twist it. And if it’s in Scripture, he’ll rewrite it in the key of Queer Eye.
In his “Pride Sunday” sermon this past weekend, he dragged out a literal closet onto the church stage—because subtlety is for people who believe in nuance—and compared the resurrection of Lazarus to the experience of “coming out.”
Yes, really.
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According to Lines, Jesus’ call to “come out” of the tomb was not a miraculous act of resurrecting a dead man, but an allegory for self-actualization through sexual identity. The burial cloths, he said, represent things like traditional family expectations and Bible verses that make people feel sad.
These must be “ripped off,” apparently, so that queers can embrace their new life—no repentance, no regeneration, just rainbow liberation theology with a side of legislative activism.
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