Believe me, it would never happen, but my good friend, Don Charles, who blogs at “Christ The Gay Martyr”, asked me to write what I would say if I were in the place of Bishop Gene Robinson and was asked to give a prayer at
On the Question and Answer section of his blog, Donny Osmond, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was asked the following question. “Here is my question. How do you think Christians should respond to Gay friends who consider themselves
I miss my mother, who passed away a year and a half ago after wasting away with Alzheimer’s disease. I sometimes wonder if anyone will ever love me again as she did: unconditionally, and with a deep respect for who I am. I see those
Hostility toward LGBT people has less to do with such issues as same-sex marriage and full and equal rights than it does with a Reactionary mind-set shared by those who have a tenacious adherence to the status quo, as long it they perceive that it
For many years I’ve been deeply concerned with, and fought against, the savage oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (hitherto referred to as LGBT) people in our society that claims to be “the land of the free.” The discrepancy between our “real culture” (what,
Editor’s note: In a 2004 article in The Times of London, Archbishop Tutu condemned persecution on the basis of sexual orientation, comparing it to apartheid. “We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and
“The Church’s Unfinished Sexual Revolution” was the title of an article in the spring 2006 issue of Yale Divinity School’s Reflections magazine. In it longtime Christian ethicist James B. Nelson described some progress in church thinking about sexual ethics, but contended that the church’s agenda
Yesterday, I received the following email from the American Family Association. It reads as follows: Dear Rev. Dr. Jerry S., “ESPN and its parent company, ABC, have refused to take any action against ESPN anchorwoman Dana Jacobson for her hateful, slurring remarks against Jesus, saying
Listen to the podcast interview Judgmental, hypocritical and anti-gay. Those are the top three terms used to describe the Christian church by young people in a recent Barna Group survey. Soulforce is working this year to change those attitudes about Christianity with several events, including
Decades ago an Atlantic editor suggested an idea for an article which I somehow failed to produce. I recall him saying that the magazine rarely covered religion, but when it did, as it had in a recent feature article, it quickened an enormous response. Today,