I forwarded “My Interview with a “Not Ex-Lesbian” Child of God,” to man at our church who identifies as a gay Christian. He came out to my husband and me a couple years ago and is one of our dear friends. While we chatted on Sunday, he shared that he too desires to make church…
Several months ago, I invited my friend to write a post on how the church can encourage those who experience same-sex attraction. This weekend she allowed me to ask her a few questions. Here is a portion of our interview: How do you self-identify? I identify as a child of God. I do not identify…
The church is not perfect, and you’ll never hear me say that it is. In recognizing areas of weakness in the church, it only confirms that the Bride of Christ needs her Bridegroom to clothe her in garments of purity- because on her own, she doesn’t deserve to wear white. But while the church is…
All commands given by God have this in common: they are easy to say, but hard to live. In this post, I want to focus on one of these commands: to care for orphans in their distress (James 1:27). The cause of the orphan is of late getting the attention that it deserves within the…
In response to my post “Be the Church” Keith writes: It seems as if Adam Lanza was a church attendee. So, The Church, “God’s prescriptions for mental health”, was in this case, unable to overcome the effect of Adam’s broken home. I love the adage “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more…
Like the rest of the nation, my husband and I have been pondering what could have been done to prevent a tragedy like the one in Sandy Hook, or the theater in Aurora, or Columbine, or, or, or… In ministry we get to see God’s hand at work in even the most difficult situations. But we have…
When I first became a Christian, I remember having serious questions about many social issues. Sometimes my especially difficult inquiries were met, not with historical proofs or apologetic reasoning, but with the flustered response “The Bible says it. I believe it. That settles it.” There was a time when that response would satisfy. A time when many…
You’ve hear about the churches that major on gay marriage or single out gays for exclusion and ridicule. They get lots of press. Here’s what many other churches are doing. You won’t hear about them in the paper so I thought I would share one story about the “Other” American church here: One morning last May, my husband…
I was writing a blog post called “The Gay Samaritan.” I wrote it under the premise that Jesus used the Samaritan in His iconic parable for maximum shock value. He was trying to stun His audience into understanding that they were to love everyone and there were now no barriers within His kingdom when it…
I have “liked” Anne Rice on Facebook so I get a steady diet of articles on over-the-top pastors and churches railing against gays, relegating them to a special hell and declaring them and homosexuality to be the greatest evil of our time. They, and the hateful and heretical Westboro-Baptist types, glean huge amounts of press (especially…
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