Bless your persecutors. As Jesus also said, “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.” The world is full of people… all different, all having had different life
In attempting to formulate an ethical Christian attitude toward homosexuality, those who identify themselves as Christians may wish to follow the example of Christ himself. References to homosexual behavior are rare in scripture, and nothing at all has been recorded as having come from Jesus
The road is long. Arriving at the end is not easy. In the storms of our human struggle, we realize that our bodies alone cannot get us to the end. The trip is too long. What we need is a power that is outside of
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. … It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to
I have to say, that in the past few years that I have been a contributor to Whosoever that it has been nothing but a positive experience for me. Candace, the editor, is truly an angel to all of us in many ways, and this
When was the first time you realized you were a “they”? It hit me at the age of 14 during a Church of Christ worship service. I was at an age when I was just beginning to accept my sexuality. My earnest prayers to change
Born in the city of Bath as Kenneth Anthony Goodenough (in Somerset England) on the 5th of January 1949, I was raised in a Christian/Salvation Army family. In fact, I believe that my deep-down Christian faith stems from the moment that my mother arranged to
Faith can’t shatter homosexual love “I won’t even begin to explain why I’m in love with Mary let alone engaged to her.” The words were barely comprehensible and came amid tears. The tears flowed heavily down my cheeks. The whole “coming out” process just took
A great warrior whose brave men and women perished in battle, still stands tall before her enemies. Unslain and proud, she dances the war dance high up on a ridge, where the enemies stare from below. They are boiling with anger, for now, she taunts!
Soulforce protests and civil disobedience action that I joined in New Orleans in June were not about Southern Baptist doctrine. It was about genocide. It was not about Southern Baptist polity and practices. It was about the life or death choices that multitudes of gay