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
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
When Jeff Lutes shared bottled water and conversation with members of Jerry Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church during Soulforce’s first action in 1999, he had no idea where it would lead him. “I thought, ‘what in the world am I doing here in a place
News release The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Institute for Welcoming Resources (IWR), an umbrella organization for leading Protestant lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) welcoming church programs, have merged. The move, an unprecedented joining of LGBT secular and faith-based organizing, is
As Whosoever celebrates its 10-year anniversary, we’ll be presenting articles that have appeared over the years about Whosoever or by Whosoever founder and editor Candace Chellew. This article originally appeared in the January 24, 1998 edition of The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. By John Blake,
Lincoln Rose began reading Whosoever nearly 10 years ago when he was a lesbian. When the now 30 year old trans-man was living as a lesbian in Michigan, he found himself shunned by the evangelical friends he had made in high school when he revealed
Sermon delivered on February 19, 2006 Text: 1 Samuel 3:1-20 A month or so ago, I became clear that I had to do something different in my life. It was one of those experiences that you can’t make happen – it happens to you. I
About a year ago, after my giving a talk on how the Bible doesn’t condemn, but actually affirms, same-sex love, a woman with a gay brother, raised in a Christian family, asked me to write out “talking points” on the subject of the consistency between
Behold, I Am Doing A New Thing: A Vision of Harvest Cover Stories God Is Still Speaking By Rev. Candace Chellew We must constantly remind ourselves that God spoke before the Bible was written and God continues to speak even though the canon is closed.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. (Matthew 5:9) Since I found a church home, at long last, a little over a year ago, God has been doing a work of spiritual healing in me. It has been good for