Outside a picturesque village in the countryside stands a very beautiful, old gothic chapel, high up on the hill above the village. It has beautiful stained glass windows and adds an air of tranquility and peace to the area around the small village. It can
If I were to describe my childhood in one word, it would have to be dysfunctional. I was literally the product of adultery. At the time my parents met they were both married and had families of their own. Shortly after, they “fell in love”
It has become clear to me that to argue against same-sex civil marriage rights on the basis of religious belief is to argue that civil marriage rights equal sacramental marriage. Certainly there are those who are legally married who are not sacramentally married in the
For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. — 2 Timothy 1:7 (New King James Version) This scripture is part of the second pastoral letter Paul writes to his colleague
Read the rest of the series I’ve written about some early clues that I should have picked up on, telling me I’m gay, but there were more. While I had some typical boy interests, such as comics and adventure TV shows, I felt no shame
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.” — Mark 10:11-12 As you might well imagine I get a lot of letters. Letters that mainly
I have carefully read the biblical passages that people generally use when writing and discussing homosexuality. I have also read numerous books written by theologians and biblical scholars (including ordained ministers) from Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Catholic religious traditions that explore extensively and intensively
In early July John Paul expressed `bitterness for the insult’ of homosexual men and women gathering in Rome during the grand Jubilee of the year 2000. In addition, the Pope underscored the “offense to Christian values” that, he said, was caused by homosexuals. The Pope’s
When I was a young Baptist, going to high school in the late 1970s, “secular humanism” was the big thing for evangelicals to rage against and to fear. Long before Tim LaHaye struck it rich with his best-selling Left Behind novels about the Rapture, he
I believe that God is an old, African, Appalachian, Jewish, homosexual, paralyzed, poor, tired, woman. I believe she has great wide hands that have been ripped from picking cotton, filthy from mining coal, raw and cracked from harvesting the crop, rotten from searching in garbage