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What the Bible Does (and Does Not) Say About Homosexuality
A good teaching from John Corvino. More here: http://www.youtube.com/user/johncorvino?feature=watch →
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Dan Savage Doesn’t Get It
Dan Savage, sex advice expert, speaker, and founder of the “It Gets Better” Project, wrote a review in the New York Times of Jeff Chu’s new book, “Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America”. First let me say two things about Dan Savage: (1) I really like and respect →
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Random Thoughts As I Read Through “Does Jesus Really Love Me?”
I am reading through Jeff Chu’s book for a second time. First time was a quick read, now reading it slower. In many ways, it is challenging me. Making me think. Wishing that I had more people to discuss it with. Here are a few random thoughts… I am sure more to come later. One →
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Plan B
Hearing about, praying for and reading other people’s responses to the tragic death of Matthew Warren, son of Rick & Kay Warren, raises a lot of pastoral — and ultimately theological — questions. Ultimately pastoral care is about the integration of right theology with the reality of real people’s lives. True theology works. If it →
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Praying for Rick & Kay Warren
I was very sad to hear of the loss of Rick & Kay Warren’s youngest son, Matthew (age 27). As the Warren’s shared in an email to the Saddleback staff that was also made public, Matthew took his own life and had been battling the mental illness of depression his entire life. I love Rick →
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A church of cos…
A church of costumes and hiding places isn’t a place I want to be. What we need, more than ever, is a church where we can shed the pretenses, and bring our doubts, our big questions, and our bigger fears. I don’t think I’m alone in desiring that. What I suspect many of us crave →
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“Being Gay at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University”
“Being Gay at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University” This is a really interesting and thought-provoking memoir article by a former student at Liberty University — one of the great fundamentalist colleges out there — who is also gay. Worth reading, because probably not what you think. While the author struggles with the question, “Does Jesus really →
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“Learning from Lesbians”
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2013/04/03/learning-from-lesbians-jeff-cook/ This is a fantastic post… read and discuss… →
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7 Takeaways From My Story
Now that (part of) my story is recorded for all history in a book, I have been wondering, what are the takeaways from my story? What is it I hope people walk away with from my story? To be honest, my story is no more interesting than anyone elses. So why share it so publicly? →
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Jesus Paid It All
One of my favorite worship songs… →
BEN DUBOW 