Gay Marriage: The Law of the Land
I confess, I’m a little surprised. The Supreme Court actually issued a ruling dealing with the substance of the question. It didn’t appeal to technicalities or procedural issues. The Constitution...
View ArticleFuller and Me
Being a professor at a theological institution is complicated. Especially when you work out a lot of your theology in public, as I do on this blog. When you blog you are never your own person. You are...
View ArticleFreedom and Identity
Sorry for the radio silence over the past two weeks. I was in Sydney and Melbourne leading some conferences for the Christians for Biblical Equality. I’ll make the talks available soon, but wanted to...
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Man Rape and Homosexuality
This is a rant. It is a rant about how we process various passages in the Bible that shed light on ancient Israel’s understandings of gender, sex, and power. In particular, it is a rant about how we...
View ArticleWhy Homosexuality is So Important to Christians
This thought from some of my writing this morning. Sexuality is important as an issue in the church not because it is the pressing moral issue of our day, but because it is a tribal identity marker....
View ArticleThree Questions for the Christian Sexuality Conversation
Every now and then some very important questions work their way to the surface in the midst of heated conversation. As I have been involved with Christian communities in conversations about sexuality...
View ArticlePatriarchy and Homosexuality
What did Ancient Romans think about homosexual practice, how did they engage in it, and did this influence what the New Testament writers said about it? That’s a question that has been churning in the...
View ArticlePaul, Patriarchy, and Homosexuality
Last week I opened up a discussion on the connection between patriarchy and homosexuality. The long and the short of it is that one of the primary ways ancient Romans determined what sorts of sexual...
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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 ArticleEmbracing the Gentiles
Those of you who have been reading my blog for any time at all know that I have been on a journey with the question of how to love our gay neighbors as ourselves. If you’ve read Jesus Have I Loved, but...
View ArticleHomosexuality 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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