Katherine Unthank wants to apologize. She’s sorry for saying “you can’t be gay and Christian.” “There are not too many published apologies out there from the conservative Christian side,” she told me during a recent interview. “Having lived there and made the journey out of
John Paulk in Wonderland During the past year, homophobic religious and political forces have accelerated and intensified their unrelenting attacks against homosexuals with ads in newspapers, magazines, and television. John Paulk and his “former lesbian” wife Anne have become symbols of the “ex-gay” push for
The ex-gay fraud In his book A Strong Delusion: Confronting the Gay Christian Movement, Joe Dallas distorts and misrepresents everything that Gay and Lesbian Christians have accomplished in the past 30 years. The book is a clearly self-serving attempt to justify and promote the methods
Battling for the heart of Christianity Rejoice gays and lesbians! Bishop John Shelby Spong says our battle has been won already. Bishop Spong’s critics often lambaste him for making statements they find outrageous, and when he told me during a recent interview that our battle
Human authenticity: The key to spirituality When Daniel Helminiak wrote What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality, he had several goals in mind. “I wanted a book that would be short, inexpensive, easily accessible and would put out information that would counter what’s coming out
Here are some books that our readers are recommending. From L. Louise: Stranger at the Gate, by Mel White Stranger at the Gate is a fascinating tale of one man’s struggle for religious freedom. Rev. Mel White was a pastor, teacher and writer. He wrote
My love affair with books began long before I could read. I remember carrying around a particular book as a child. I could not make out a word of it, but I liked the look and feel of the book in my hands. I liked
By their fruitiness shall ye know them Amazing Grace: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Faith Malcolm Boyd and Nancy Wilson, eds. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1991. A collection of autobiographical writings by lesbian/gay Christians. This one stands out for several reasons. First, it is ecumenical,
Three years ago when my partner left me and I began to sink into a fog of self-pity and remorse, my good friend Rev. Carolyn Mobley, Associate Pastor of MCC of the Resurrection in Houston, Texas, recommend that I should read a very special book
Stories of faith As a child my faith was constantly bolstered by stories, both fiction and non-fiction, of those whose lives had been touched by Jesus. The Man Born To Be King a play-cycle on the life of Jesus written by Dorothy Sayers and presented