Read the rest of the series In the summer of 1998 fundamentalist Christian organizations, fearful of the consideration by some states of recognizing same-gender marriage, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads in major newspapers telling the nation that gays and lesbians are “sick”
Read the rest of the series 1-1 Helmut Thielicke, The Ethics of Sex, 283-4 1-2 APA News Release No. 98-56, December 14, 1998 1-3 Quoted by Ellen Herman, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Homosexuality, 33 2-1 Jeffrey S. Siker, “Homosexual Christians, the Bible and Gentile Inclusion: Confessions
Read the rest of the series THE NEW TESTAMENT In the New Testament there are three passages to consider. Romans 1:21, 26, 27 Revised Standard Version 21 for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him… 26
Good News: You baptized seven people today in the river. Bad News: You lost two of them in the swift current. Good News: The Women’s Guild voted to send you a get-well card. Bad News: The vote passed by 31-30. Good News: The Elder Board
(Author Unknown) Okay, so I’m writing something about humor, and I feel I have a good sense of humor but strangely enough, I could not come up with something I felt was funny regarding religion that is originally mine. I did, however, remember a piece
Washing feet: A Biblical fetish? In the movie The Big Chill, during a weekend of reminiscing about their college days in the ’60s, the once-aspiring journalist who is now a reporter for a gossip magazine says, “I hate to think that all we stood for
Part 1 of the 12-part series “Lepers, Loons and Losers: The Outcasts of the Gospels.” Read the rest of the series here. And Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water.
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost: Hebrews 7:23-28, Mark 10:46-52 Forgive the stereotype, dear friends, but let me begin today with a story about a little old lady. Age had robbed her of much of her sight, so
Read the rest of the series Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church, Phoenix, Ariz. As different as the mice and little people were, they shared something in common: Every morning, they each put on their jogging suits and running shoes, left their little homes, and raced
When I was twenty I climbed onto the roof of an abandoned building with two friends on an October day and a few moments later we were surrounded by thousands of starlings, all migrating to the South. We had not expected to find birds in