Homosexuality Conversation with Gagnon
If you’re interested in the conversation between Robert Gagnon and myself from last weekend, when I presented verbally the arguments that I outlined in Saturday’s post, knock yourself out: Ordination...
View ArticleScripture and the Spirit of Christ
Here’s the two-step that got me to the most important place I’ve come to in how to read the Bible. Step One: in seminary I was taught to read the Bible as a whole, coherent narrative that has Jesus the...
View ArticleGentiles? Really?
This past week I have articulated a biblical framework for full inclusion of LGBTQ people in the church here on the blog and at Valley Presbyterian Church in Phoenix, and followed up with some...
View ArticleHomophobia Revisited
I have never been a fan of the word “homophobic.” I have generally found it to be unhelpful in the homosexuality conversation because it is often used in a condescending and/or unnecessarily...
View ArticleWhat I Am Affirming
This week I had a great conversation with a friend who has been working to create space in Evangelical churches for LGBTQ folks. In the course of the conversation he expressed his concerns over the...
View ArticleYou Don’t Hold the Biblical Position on Homosexuality
As I have reflected back on my conversation at Valley Presbyterian Church last month, there is really only one thing that I regret not saying. It is this: You do not hold to the biblical position on...
View ArticlePederasty in Rome Revisited
A few months ago I was working through some common ideas about what sorts of same-sex engagements were practiced in first-century Rome. This is an important conversation because it shapes how we...
View ArticleRedemptive Trajectories and Homosexuality
In his book Slaves, Women & Homosexuals William Webb wrestles with the hermeneutics involved in some of the thorniest issues of the past hundred and fifty years. Slaves, Women, & Scripture Not...
View Article“Christian” Transphobia and Title IX
Blogsphere confessional: I struggle to be nice to positions and/or people I passionately disagree with. I’m sorry about that. I know that more fruitful conversation and movement can happen when we...
View ArticleFaithful Supersessionism
Scribes and Prophets Once upon a time I suggested that there are two primary ways that people love the church. Some of us love the church like scribes and some of us love the church like prophets....
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