“Why are Christians obsessed with homosexuality?”

You’ve heard this refrain ad nauseam. “Why are you fixated on other people’s sex lives?!”  “Why are you so one dimensional? Can’t you talk about anything else?”  The catalyst on my recent post was this: “…..do you set homosexuality aside as a single target, just ’cause you feel like it?” Let me give it to you…

Living in the Tension

I attended a conference on ministry this week that included a session called “Living in the Tension,” which was designed to guide us in ministering to gay peoples.  Like most areas of the country, that’s happening here in the Great Northwest on occasion.  The discussion reconfirmed a couple truths. First, when people tell you that…

HearTheBigot

My friend Todd Herman was filling in for Ben Shapiro today on 770 KTTH.  He asked me to be his guest.  We talked about changing the tone on the gay marriage discussion.  For those who have been following askthebigot for a while, there’s not much new here.  It was a heavy dose of love-your-gay-neighbor, and…

Would you attend a gay wedding?

I live in The Land of the Left and sometimes it can be scarier than being chased by dinosaurs and stalked by sleestacks. More often though, it is a place where I live by principal and risk being despised by some and misunderstood by many. I live where gay marriage is legal. This raises a fairly…

Sacrifice & Friendship

Several years ago, God asked my husband and I to do the hardest thing in my Christian life- leave the church, home, and city that we loved without good earthly reason.  I went.  But I went kicking and screaming, lamenting and wringing my hands.  It was personally and financially costly.  And as our family of…