The recently-uncovered Lost Gospel of Judas was all over the news in April, and headlines continue to be devoted to it. This ancient text, which has been carbon-dated to between 220 and 340, is a copy in Coptic (ancient Egyptian) of a gospel that was
Disarming the Scriptures When I saw the announcement for Craig Bettendorf’s new book A Biblical Defense Guide for Gays, Lesbians and Those Who Love Them, my first reaction was to groan. Why in the world do we need yet another book about what the Bible
A new Pentecost The time has come to let the fundamentalists have the church. So says Rev. Matthew Fox in his new book A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity, where he presents his own 95 theses in the tradition of Martin
I have watched God take Her love and squeeze it through a surgeon’s precise line of vision to save the heartbeat of a strait who would probably vomit to know a Lesbian operated. I have heard God distill His grandeur through a Brother’s gay fingers
As a part of my ministry, one of my most commonly received questions is “Well, if you believe God accepts both gays and straights and men and women as equals, if you don’t take all that stuff about the man as head of the woman
There is a real tendency, in some modern religious circles, to discount the existence of miracles. They don’t happen every day, we are told, therefore they can never happen. Some people say this ignores the logic behind a belief in miracles. That if they happened
Several months ago during a casual conversation, I was described by someone as being a radical. When he first said it I didn’t know whether I should laugh or be offended. It never quite dawned on me until then that my standing up against spiritual
For someone as touchy about being confined to cramped quarters as I am, coming out of the closet and telling my husband that I am a bisexual last year seemed like it would be a pretty freeing experience. So it was, for about five minutes.
Listen to the podcast interview Words are strange. In the Bible, the Exodus refers to coming out of the desert experience, and leaving the years of bondage to Pharaoh. It was coming into the promised land. Exodus International has taken the name and the image
Dear Christianity Today: I read My Dirty Little Former Secret by Dennis Belkofer. And I want to challenge Christianity Today to publish my story or someone’s like mine in addition to this story. My story goes something like this: Both sets of my grandparents were