I know. I know. It took Jesus less time to raise Lazarus from the dead that it’s taking me to write about it. Brevity has never been a gift of mine, but we’ll get to the end eventually. Lazarus has been dead four days and it wasn’t forest-scented potpourri filling the air. (vs. 39) Without [...]

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Lazarus came out of the grave, not out of the closet. He was dead, not gay. I, on the other hand, am gay and when I read and reflect on the words of Scripture it becomes the living, breathing, inspiring word of God to the extent I find meaning in its pages that speak to [...]

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Getting back to where I left off before life, laundry, and laziness intervened, here are some thoughts as I read the story of Jacob wrestling with God in Genesis 32 and how there might be some connecting points for those GLBTQ Christians who find themselves still struggling to reconcile their faith and sexuality. As the [...]

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I’m struggling. I don’t know why I waited so long to ask for help. It’s odd how growing up I felt so close to God. When no one knew I was a lesbian. Then when I came out it was as if I hadn’t believed in God at all. All the things I said about [...]

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At some undetermined moment in history, slightly after the ink dried on the first run edition of Johann Gutenberg’s Bible and before last Tuesday, it was decided that every focus group needed their own translation of the Bible. I’m inclined to believe this has a little less to do with providing tools for the spiritual [...]

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I’m only telling you what the Bible says… The Bible couldn’t be more clear in its condemnation of homosexuality. This isn’t my view, it’s Gods. Homosexuality is a sin. God said it, I believe it, that settles it. Any of these sound familiar? Did you hear them from a family member? A friend? A pastor? [...]

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by Rev. Dr. Walter Wink Sexual issues are tearing our churches apart today as never before. The issue of homosexuality threatens to fracture whole denominations, as the issue of slavery did a hundred and fifty years ago. We naturally turn to the Bible for guidance, and find ourselves mired in interpretative quicksand. Is the Bible [...]

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All ancient religions and cultures developed creation stories including the Amorites, Canannites and Babylonians, all which predate the creation story found in Genesis 1-2. These ancient stories tell of how the world came into being, who their deities were and how their deities played a part in the forming of the world and in relating [...]

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If the word homosexual appears in your Bible in either passage then you have a version that was written after 1946. Prior to the 1946 Edition of the Revised Standard Version, the words that homosexual had begun to replace in many modern versions included boy prostitutes, effeminate, those who make women of themselves, sissies, the [...]

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“I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles. I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both [...]

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