Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has a message for the pope – time to ditch the church’s official homophobia! “We need an attitude of mind where rethinking and the concept of evolving attitudes becomes part of the discipline with which you approach your religious
People who argue against same-gender marriage as some new-fangled perversion of marriage don’t know their history very well. Contrary to myth, Christianity’s concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the days of Christ, but has constantly evolved as a concept and ritual.
“For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1) Like many Christians, I have been curious and dismayed about what seems to be the increasing appeal of fundamentalism and fundamentalist thinking within
In Seattle, self-described “charismatic Calvinist” Mark Driscoll preaches that “Jesus is a pride fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand, and the willingness to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship I cannot worship a guy I can
Did you know that there is a Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing? On Thursday, January 8, the Institute, together with Union Theological Seminary in New York, issued a fifty-two page report, which is a call for North American Theological Seminaries to offer
Believe me, it would never happen, but my good friend, Don Charles, who blogs at “Christ The Gay Martyr”, asked me to write what I would say if I were in the place of Bishop Gene Robinson and was asked to give a prayer at
On the Question and Answer section of his blog, Donny Osmond, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was asked the following question. “Here is my question. How do you think Christians should respond to Gay friends who consider themselves
I miss my mother, who passed away a year and a half ago after wasting away with Alzheimer’s disease. I sometimes wonder if anyone will ever love me again as she did: unconditionally, and with a deep respect for who I am. I see those
Hostility toward LGBT people has less to do with such issues as same-sex marriage and full and equal rights than it does with a Reactionary mind-set shared by those who have a tenacious adherence to the status quo, as long it they perceive that it
For many years I’ve been deeply concerned with, and fought against, the savage oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (hitherto referred to as LGBT) people in our society that claims to be “the land of the free.” The discrepancy between our “real culture” (what,