For those wrestling with the question of what a Christian position on the issue of homosexuality should look like, Dale Martin’s new book Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation could be a valuable resource. Unlike…
Morality
What Is a Christian?
Can a person be both gay and Christian? It’s an important question that has only begun receiving serious attention over the last couple of decades. Many evangelical Christians would respond with a flat “no” and refuse to engage the question…
A Story of Cruelty
Here’s a story about Cheryl and Keri. Once upon a time they met and fell in love and decided to get married, start a family, and spend the rest of their lives together. So Cheryl and Keri went to Vermont…
PageOneQ has the response of Mike Jones, the escort who exposed mega-church pastor Ted Haggard’s same-sex philandering. Jones responds to two claims made by Rev. Tim Ralph, a member of Haggard’s restoration team. Ralph claimed, “He is completely heterosexual. It…
The Other Side of Values Determination
The San Jose Mercury News tells us of the intense pressures put on young gay Chinese Like many gay men in China, 22-year-old Chen Lei enjoys the newfound liberties of urban life. But he says he cannot fight his destiny:…
A well written article in Christianity Today begins: American evangelicals, who profess to be committed to Truth, are among the worst abusers of simple descriptive statistics, which claim to represent the truth about reality, of any group I have ever…
Mike Ensley On Gender Fluidity
Mike Ensley is in his mid-twenties, and is listed as the assistant for the Exodus International’s Exodus Youth department. Ensley, like many working for Exodus International, has a habit of writing or talking about things which are outside of his…
The culture war over homosexuality is not, primarily, a battle between liberals and conservatives. It is often a war between those who refuse to discuss the issue, and those who call for the issue be addressed honestly in a community…
Dennis Prager wrote an article on TownHall.com prescribing his god’s judgment upon the transgendered. Well… most of them, assuming you’re able to follow his bizarre logic. Exodus of course is promoting the story without question. For an organization with the…
Some antigay Christians are uncomfortable thinking about the world in tangible, rational, measurable, logical terms. These individuals — indeed, whole denominations — may be more comfortable reducing the world to primeval “curses and blessings” — superstitions and ghosts. Douglas Jones…