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Gentiles and Homosexuals (pt. 3)
In Part 1 of this series I illustrated the danger of thinking that we as the insiders can contain the blessings of God–we might find ourselves attempting to throw Jesus off a cliff. In Part 2, I...
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Since I’m on vacation and away from internet access, I continue my series on how we should be reading the New Testament and its implications for how we handle issues such as gay marriage. For those of...
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Gentiles and Homosexuals (pt. 5)
Inasmuch as I’m still on vacation, and still not able to get any sort of access to the internet, I figured I’d keep putting up posts on how God’s desire to bless the whole world might mean that...
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Gentiles and Homosexuals (pt. 6)
Since I will soon be returning from vacation and have to deal with the firestorm created by my position on Christians and gay marriage, this will be the last in the series! In essence, I have argued...
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The End of Sexual Identity
Once upon a time I was in the practice of saying that the church has something wonderful for GLBT people–the same thing it has for folks who consider themselves heterosexual; namely, that your...
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Homosexuality: Identity and Scripts
I’d like your help. I’m involved in some discussions about homosexuality in the church, and we’re using Mark Yarhouse’s book, Homosexuality and the Christian as our jumping-off point. There are two...
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Homosexuality: Silence and Story
I am grateful to Tony Jones for returning, once again, to engage ch. 9 of Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul?, after first critiquing the chapter last week. He summarizes my three-fold engagement with...
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Gay Conversations with God
This weekend I read James Alexander Langteaux’s Gay Conversations with God. I heard Langteaux interviewed on a podcast and followed the trail to the book. This is a challenging book for me to respond...
View ArticleRegarding Amendment 1 in North Carolina
I consider North Carolina home. My Opa lives in the same house I have been going to for holidays and summer breaks my whole life. My other grandparents are buried in a small town’s small church...
View ArticleMarriage, Sex, and Procreation
It seems that everywhere I turn, folks are responding in some way to the North Carolina amendment 1, which solidifies NC’s legal ban on gay marriage and also forbids the state from recognizing civil...
View ArticleWorld Vision and Being a Disciple
This week, as the World Vision kerffufel was unfolding, I saw a phrase from Denny Burk that caught my eye. He concluded from his survey of scripture: Thus it is impossible to be a “follower of Christ”...
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Vines: God and the Gay Christian
Matthew Vines is out to show that the Christian case in favor of same-sex relationships is not the exclusive purview of the liberals. As an Evangelical, who seems to me to hold a view of scripture that...
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Tim Otto: Reorienting the Homosexuality Conversation
My friend Tim Otto wants to talk about orientation. And he wants to talk about gay people in the church. But the orientation he wants to address is not sexual orientation. He wants to talk about the...
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Pederasty in Rome
A few weeks ago, City Church in San Francisco announced its decision to become a “third way” church with respect to the issue of homosexual practice: a church where there could be divergence of opinion...
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Ken Wilson on Christian Community (part 1)
When City Church in San Francisco announced that it was altering its policies with regard to the inclusion of LGBTQ folks, they indicated that an important voice guiding them forward was that of Ken...
View ArticleKen Wilson on Christian Community (part 2)
On Sunday Ken Wilson gave a sermon at City Church San Francisco called “The Unique Tenacity of Christian Community.” A friend of mine called it, “Best sermon ever on LGBT inclusion without mentioning...
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Did Temple Prostitution Exist?
What was the sexual climate of the first century Mediterranean, and how does that help us to understand what the New Testament is talking about? That’s a question that runs right through the middle of...
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Slave Sex in Ancient Rome
As Christians try to figure out what it looks like to respond in continuity with our ancient tradition to same-sex attraction, relationships, and questions of what is appropriate physical intimacy, one...
View ArticleHomosexuality and Romans 1
Over the past few weeks I have been taking occasional soundings into questions surrounding homosexuality in the ancient world. Just to clarify what has not been clear to some: it is obvious to me that...
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Gay Christians: Should Relationships Matter?
Certain kinds of people simply cannot be part of the people of God. Making such a judgment is not based on bigotry. It is simply based on the story of God in which the people of God are defined in...
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