The Free Gift of Grace
Psalm 84:11 rightly places the source of Grace as God: For the Lord God is a sun and a shield, the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will God withhold from them that walk uprightly. Grace is a free gift. It cannot
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God’s Great Gift
I cannot be good as I desire to be, and I do wrong against my wishes. (Romans 7:19) Little else in my spiritual journey with God has the effect of bringing me face to face with these sentiments of the Apostle Paul as does the
Doubly Blessed
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound; that saved someone like me; I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. Thus went a slight revision of the lyrics to this song at a church in Southern California that was doing
Grace for the ‘As Is’
The righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction; since all have sinned and fall short
Gays and Lesbians as Dispensers of Grace in a Church of Ungrace
Trained in ungrace I guess I should count myself lucky. I mean, I live in a country where the rights of gays and lesbians are firmly entrenched within the constitution: South Africa — a testimony to the human struggle against injustice and prejudice. Why is
A Message of Grace to a Roman Catholic Priest
The following is an edited letter I wrote to a Roman Catholic priest who wrote a letter to me disagreeing with my views affirming gay marriage. My letter is designed to hammer home the “Good News” of the Gospel message that we are no longer
A Lambda Theology: Cabin Fever
Having stripped ourselves of the sacred texts of Sappho, Plato, Rumi, Dickenson, and countless others, in our eagerness to find a seat near (but not at) the Eucharistic table, I don’t want to find us the victim of a malady that I call “Cabin Fever
Mel White Responds to the Critics
We at Soulforce have been roundly criticized for our act of civil disobedience at Cleveland’s United Methodist General Conference. One critic dismissed our efforts as “media-driven street theater.” We accept that as a compliment. For thirty years Protestant and Catholic leaders have debated the homosexuality
Speaking Truth to Power in Cleveland: My Experience at the United Methodist General Conference
“You’re under arrest!” This phrase echoed in my mind as I rode silently in a taxicab from the Police Station to Soulforce Headquarters 20 blocks away. I was not one of the 191 arrested the morning of May 10 outside the United Methodist General Conference
A Glimpse of the ‘Beloved’ Community
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. God does not faint or grow weary; God’s understanding is unsearchable. God gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless. Even youths