One of my Biblical heroes is the prophet Jeremiah. But boy, I would not want to have had his life! For his life, like Paul’s, was a series of horrible events that would probably cause even the most mature believers to rethink their commitment to
During a rather difficult time in my life, when I had been praying consistently for a broken relationship to be restored, I recall mentioning to my rather conservative Christian father that God seemed to be responding to my prayers with silence, as the woman who
As a man who is a follower of Jesus yet sometimes wears a dress, I have found that most church people would automatically condemn people like me as sinners in need of repentance. They wouldn’t want us in their churches until we cleaned up our
News release LOS ANGELES — Refusing to be intimidated by a rare winter thunderstorm, twenty-six Christian ministers and Jewish rabbis waded through the flooded streets of West Los Angeles on their cold, wet march to the international headquarters of the Fox Family Channel. “We’re seeking
You have to move out of the past and into the present before you can move into the future with confidence and hope. You might be feeling the hurts and pain of past holiday seasons. Let go of it and live today. You may regret
We’ve heard a lot of talk recently about Y2K – Year Two Thousand. The second millennium since the birth of Christ is upon us (actually it occurred a few years ago but nobody noticed because of the calendar adjustments during the Renaissance). Since we like
I usually write an article every issue of “Whosoever”, because I know that this is one of the few places where I can express myself as a bisexual Christian without fear of condemnation and judgment, and I know that there are many other bisexuals who
For gays and lesbians it’s an all too familiar scenario: upon revealing their sexual orientation to their family, they are unceremoniously shown the door – kicked out of their homes and disowned. Ironically, it’s the same fate that recently befell two Baptist churches in Georgia.
Renewing Our Strength Cover Stories Adequate Power Is Available By Candace Chellew It is this power — the transcendent power of the divine-human connection — that gives us strength. Because of this connection, Paul says, “we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed,
It’s funny, sometimes, how that old statement that I have been hearing all of my life, “God never gives us more than we can handle”, seems to resurface over and over again at times in my life. Even even more astounding is how when it