While visiting the Pacific Northwest this past weekend I attended a conservative, evangelical Christian church on Sunday morning. Not just any conservative, evangelical Christian church but the one I attended for the first 20 plus years of my life. It was my home church from my prenatal existence until the day I headed south to [...]

Posted in Christian Living and Faith, Theology 33 Comments »

Long before Ray Boltz there was Marsha Stevens. Many of you know the story. Marsha played a significant role in the early days of contemporary Christian music. She was a member of the Christian group Children of the Day and wrote the song, For Those Tears I Died. As the story goes, after coming out [...]

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Can you imagine how many hits that title’s going to generate on the search engines? At this very moment a heterosexual man in Cleveland, Ohio is eagerly waiting for his slow as molasses dial-up modem to open up this page so he can. . . oh hi, Mr. Cleveland Guy. Here’s the free download of [...]

Posted in Christian Living and Faith, Human Sexuality, Sexual Ethics 16 Comments »

Now there’s a post title that gives you warm goose bumps from head to toe but really, after the comments following yesterday’s post I thought a little perspective was in order before I start buying into the saintly version of me I was starting to string together with your kind words. And besides, at some [...]

Posted in Christian Living and Faith, Love and Grace 4 Comments »

Incoming metaphor! Stop, drop, and roll. I’ve only entered two other races in my short “athletic” career. I completed a half-marathon a couple summers ago which turned out to be a miserable experience due to ridiculously hot weather that slowed me to a pace considered competitive only among potato bugs. By the time I crossed [...]

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This weekend I’m in Monterey Bay for the Big Sur International Marathon and no, I’m not putting 26.2 miles on these precious piddy-pats of mine, particularly since the route follows Hwy 101 along the coast between Big Sur and Carmel making for one ridiculously hilly course. Instead I’m going to be sashaying my sweet little [...]

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At each and every moment in our lives We do one of two things. Either we tell the truth all the time, all the way Or we do something else. This something else, no matter how neatly disguised, is called lying. And the better the reasons we have for our lies, The more firmly we [...]

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I wrote this article for LOGOS, the student publication for Pacific School of Religion (PSR) in the Spring of 2003 during my graduate studies. I’ve posted it here with the hope it would lead to personal reflection for all of us located within a more progressive or liberal Christian context. I was a fundamentalist Christian [...]

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