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Christianity, conservative Christianity, controversy, Gay marriage, homosexuality, marriage, sexuality, World Vision
Couldn’t have put it better than Julie did. This is a must-read.
29 Saturday Mar 2014
Posted Christianity, Politics, Theology
inTags
Christianity, conservative Christianity, controversy, Gay marriage, homosexuality, marriage, sexuality, World Vision
Couldn’t have put it better than Julie did. This is a must-read.
12 Sunday Jan 2014
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inIn this article at the Spiritual Friendship blog, one bisexual student at a Christian liberal arts college describes what it is like for him to follow traditional, biblical sexual ethics.
One snippet:
Online, I was discovering there were gay celibate Christians who believed the Church could really “Be the church for the homosexual Christian” (as one of the first articles I read by Wesley Hill said). “Why did we never hear this?” I wondered. My short-lived mission to bring such dialogue to my campus began.
I was not always noble in my attitude. I fluctuated between the most genuine heart-felt concern and, at my worst, self-righteous indignation at the community around me. I felt trapped and in the one place I thought that such dialogue, about being gay and chaste, about spiritual friendship, could occur! If there was any good to a Christian education, I thought, it was that it cared for the whole person: their mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual self. And I did not feel fed: I was starving.
28 Monday Oct 2013
Posted Christianity
inThose People Out There Are In Here.
This is a point I’ve been trying to make for quite some time; Julie pins it down well.
18 Thursday Jul 2013
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inA different kind of coming out?
A great article a friend posted on Facebook that I wanted to share here.
18 Monday Mar 2013
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inSaw this article today in my RSS feed. It’s worth a careful read, especially by pastors who struggle to know what to do with parishioners who struggle with sexuality issues.
13 Wednesday Mar 2013
Wesley Hill has written a great article over at the First Things blog. One of my favorite moments of the article is this:
This is what bothers me about what I hear from certain kinds of reparative therapies: offering hope to gay people seems to amount to a prediction of orientation change (assuming the correct regimen is followed). And whenever a Christian expresses doubt about the surety of that prediction, the response can often take the form of, ‘Well, you just don’t have enough faith.’ (Or as a licensed professional counselor, a Christian with a certain angle on reparative therapy, once said to me, ‘That sounds like depression.’)
Yeah…something like that. 😦
Check it out.
13 Wednesday Mar 2013
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inThis is a great article from the Odd Man Out blog. Check it out!