Same-Sex Attraction and the Church: The Surprising Plausibility of the Celibate Life is a must read for all Christians
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The Church As Beacon
"If you have a family, you can reasonably feel you have time for no one else. But that can mean that unless you have a family, you feel you have no one at all." - Ed Shaw
Book Review: Openness Unhindered
There are confessions. There are aired disagreements. Finally, there are direct calls to future dialogue and real life interaction.
Openness Unhindered: When Sisters Disagree
Listening to different stories and perspectives helps us check our own thoughts for hidden paradigms and presuppositions. It allows us to find the roots of our differences and acknowledge that ideas are not what define people.
Introducing Openness Unhindered
While we must always affirm God's position and the Biblical worldview, this does not negate the importance of human experience. Instead, we learn that human experience is important so long as it is not utilized to contradict Scripture.
A Gender Stereotyping Discussion
The Scriptures tell us to do this. What a novel thought.
My Own Struggle With My Son’s Struggle
My son is Michael. I love him so much that I would die for him. Our family will walk side by side with him no matter what and I continue to pray that the battle will be won…in Jesus’ Name!
Public Confession
Christ's death on the cross is not for them in a special way. But for them right now, His nakedness is represented by their honesty.
On My Struggle With Homosexuality
Compassion for a struggle that is not our own can strengthen our weakened brother or sister. The church must look, listen, and understand.
Not a Book Review of Is God Anti-Gay by Sam Allberry
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A False Hermeneutic of Love
"Love" is not something we are given apart from Jesus Christ. Neither is it something we can give apart from Christ. Love in us is our emulation of God's love.
Looking Forward
This isn’t something I can just do away with. I can’t remove it from me. I wish I could. I have spent many nights, praying, crying, weeping for God to take it away. Crying because I keep failing. Weeping because I don’t know that I will ever be able to have the family and life that I so desperately crave, and instead the feeling of impending loneliness descends on me.
Gracious Tables
These are the conversations of experienced people. Conversation flooded with input not for the sake of self gratification or pontification but for an engagement and sharing of life.
Book Review: Generous Spaciousness by Wendy VanderWal-Gritter
The thesis of Generous Spaciousness does not promote a specific position/viewpoint on homosexuality and Christianity. Instead it is a thesis that demands grace throughout discussions, questions, hermeneutics, and particular texts when they occur within the church.