Part of a series of essays on the Bible and homosexuality. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 | The original Greek Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage
Part of a series of essays on the Bible and homosexuality. Malakoi and arsenokoitai in 1 Timothy 1 Timothy 1:9 again refers to malakoi arsenokoitai which has been variously translated as homosexuals, sexual perverts etc. Again, the original meaning of the text as been lost.
Part of a series of essays on the Bible and homosexuality. Condemnation of the Sodomites Jude 7 refers to the people of Sodom as “giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh.” Strange flesh has been variously translated as perverted sensuality, unnatural lust,
Back to Index Websites Our Verses of Hope page provides passages that prove to LGBTQ+ people — and really, to everyone — that God loves us and is with us always; these passages far outnumber the six clobber passages. Homosexuality and Transgenderism Bible Study By
Christianity betrayed Bruce Bawer keeps stealing my ideas. I don’t know how he gets into my head, but he does. So far, he’s written two books I wish I had written. First, there was A Place At The Table, an unblinkingly critical look at gay
This article is an excerpt from the book From Wounded Hearts: Faith Stories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People and Those Who Love Them, compiled and edited by Roberta Showalter Kreider, with a Foreword by Peggy Campolo, published by Chi Rho Press. I was
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28) If Jesus is holy, then clearly holiness is not about separation. (Mike Riddell,
Bernadette J. Brooten’s book Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism got someone’s attention; it earned the 1997 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Studies and an award from the American Academy of Religion, but it was ignored by much of the lesbian and
Young author challenges historian Boswell’s conclusions Since John Boswell’s Christmas Eve death to AIDS in 1994, no one has risen to fill his position as the foremost scholar on the history of lesbian and gay Christianity. Mark Jordan may be one candidate to fill that
A Groundswell of Gay Spirituality “Being gay is not an accident . . . it is a calling.” I read these words and quietly gasped with joy. I was on the train to New York City passing the time by reading M.R. Ritley’s God’s Gay