On CNN this week, Tulsa Pentecostal pastor Carlton Pearson described how he had a change of heart about fundamentalism after his best friend came out gay. Bishop Pearson graduated from ORU, and was well-known for his association with such charismatic…
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Chambers on CNN Tonight
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Alan Chambers will be appearing on CNN tonight. The Exodus President will be interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room, following an article in today’s LA Times, in which Chambers disavows the “ex-gay” label: It’s too neat, implying a…
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The Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland, voted last week in favour of a new policy endorsing ex-gay therapy. The aim of the document was to make the church a more welcoming and understanding place…
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Source: Human Rights Campaign WASHINGTON — Today, during a joint session, Massachusetts lawmakers voted 151 to 45 to defeat a measure that would have placed a discriminatory, anti-marriage constitutional amendment before voters on the November 2008 ballot. The proposed amendment…
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I’ve been encouraged to share personal narratives about what I’ve learned from ex-gay therapy/ministry. While I’ve never experienced being ex-gay personally, my unique perspective affords me a great deal of “inside” anecdotal information that could be valuable to folks on…
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On Thursday the 2007 Soulforce Equality Rides will arrive at their first destinations. Yes, you heard me right, there are two buses this year, one headed east, one headed west. On last year’s Equality Ride participants found themselves unprepared when…
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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…
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Transgender Religious Summit
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This weekend marks the first ever Transgender Religious Summit. The press release states the following about the event: Religious communities struggle with full acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, causing discrimination not just in churches, temples, and…
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Dan’s Annual Church Experience
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Merry Christmas everyone. I’m back from my cruise to Mexico last week and now I’m at my parents’ place in Ventura for Christmas. I had the unpleasant obligation of attending church this morning where I was again reminded of one…
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Open Forum: NYT Article “Gay And Evangelical”
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In some ways this subject is outside our normal scope (hence the open forum designation), but I feel there is a tie to the ex-gay equation as our own Daniel Gonzalez has recently illustrated. Faith, especially for Christians, can be…