Editor: In reading this wonderful article (Becoming a Transcended Christian: An Interview with Author Daniel Helminiak) I found myself smiling because I have been in agreement with what Daniel Helminiak is saying for quite some time now. Within the Catholic Church there is the beginnings
Listen to the podcast interview Becoming a transcended Christian “Religion is blowing up our world.” That’s how writer and psychology professor Daniel Helminiak characterizes the state of the world. Until we can come to grips with the pluralism of religious beliefs in our world, there
Read the related article His book What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality took the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community by storm when it was first published in 1994. Despite Christianity’s rejection of GLBT people, Daniel A. Helminiak’s book seemed to fill a void
Raising up prophets to society When I first picked up Dr. Robert Minor’s book Scared Straight: Why It’s So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It’s So Hard to Be Human, I couldn’t help but be reminded of my teen years when we were
I wrote this letter to a gay man who e-mailed me and asked me to recommend books that would help him in his struggle to reconcile a personal relationship with God after growing up in a church that vigorously condemned homosexuality. Dear friend, I do
Preached on August 1, 2004 at MCC Columbia in Columbia, S.C. When Andy (Sidden, pastor of MCC Columbia) first proposed this “Summer Sizzle” series on the Bible and homosexuality I rolled my eyes. If I had a penny for every time I’ve had to explain
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. A new monk arrives at the monastery and is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, not the original books. So, the new monk goes
Revive us again; Fill each heart with thy love; May each soul be rekindled with fire from above. — Revive Us Again (William P. MacKay and John J. Husband) Any attempt to transform a social system without addressing both its spirituality and its outer forms
There was a saying that my father had when I was younger, which I recall clearly, as he often used it to try and push ultra conservative fundamentalist theology on me. Most often his insistence that anything we wanted to accomplish or have for ourselves
It was a Friday night, February 28, 1997. The phone range late in the evening. My husband, Bob, answered. I heard him say, “Hi, George,” in a friendly voice. George is my ex-husband, the father of my two daughters. Suddenly Bob sat down and made