Sam recently added the following comment on my post, “Change or Be Celibate” and rather than taking a chance of it slipping under the radar on the back side of the blog I’m adding it as a new post so it doesn’t get missed for those who share similar concerns and questions as the ones [...]

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I was reminded of a favorite quotation by Frederick Buechner this weekend related to calling, the quote being “The place God calls you to is the place where your deepest gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” I adore that quote and in a future post I’ll come back to it but not today. Instead, [...]

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In ancient Palestine there were 613 rules, determined by the rabbis from within the Law of Moses (the first five books of the Old Testament) that were binding to the Jews; 245 of these were positive commands corresponding to the number of parts of the body, and 365 of them were negative commands corresponding to [...]

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I realized today that it’s been nearly two months ago since I started a sporatic series on (queer) Christian sexual ethics with a post titled Lesbian Sex, Free Downloads, and Naked Photos. I know you’ll be nonplussed to learn that particular post gets the highest number of hits every day, a result of some fairly [...]

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In a recent post Gay? Okay! Sex? No Way! I wrote Were the prohibition against premarital sex a decree of God’s the inclusion of the Song of Songs in the Old Testament becomes a problem. While it’s often been interpreted as an allegorical depiction of the relationship between God and Israel (as husband and wife) [...]

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In my last post I offered the main Biblical passages (at least of which I’m aware so enlighten me if you know of others) that address the question of celibacy and nothing in those passages suggested that celibacy was mandated in the Scriptures for any one individual or any particular category of people, but rather, [...]

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Does God require life-long celibacy of all those with same-sex attractions? No. Should I say more? Okay. I will. Much more. You hear it all the time, from self-named ex-gay ministries, from conservative Christian circles, from family and friends;  gays and lesbians committed to the Christian life are to refrain from all sexual activity. Be [...]

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The realization I was a lesbian had barely cleared my cerebral cortex before I was promising to God I’d never do anything with another woman all the days of my life. Anything included, but was not limited to touching, kissing, snuggling, folding, spindling, and kadoodling. Even after reconciling my faith and sexuality I still had [...]

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In The Biblical View(s) of Marriage and Sex I addressed the lack of a clear Biblical sexual ethic to guide us in being sexually responsible queer or for that matter, straight Christians because of the conflicting and culturally limited way in which the Bible addresses human sexuality and relationships. These issues, presented in no particular [...]

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Oops! Sorry for not posting last night as I intended but both my computers were stuck for hours uploading the latest upgrade to the Mac operating system while my iPod Touch was grinding away with it’s own massively time-consuming upgrade. By the time I’d rebooted half a dozen times and sorted my way through the [...]

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