“Undo Me” was probably my favorite Jennifer Knapp song for the longest time. I loved her energy, passion, guitar skills…she was GREAT in concert. I think I first saw her when I was a senior in high school at Creation ’98 at the Gorge at George, and then a couple times when I was in [...]
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Sex and youth ministry. Not necessarily words that normally go together, right? I’d say it’s pretty safe to say that as a whole, we’ve really let our youth down when it comes to talking about sex at church. Before seminary, I served as the Director of Youth Ministries at a small church, and I can [...]
This past Tuesday night, at 660th meeting of the Presbytery of San Francisco, the Presbytery narrowly approved Lisa Larges for ordination. Larges is a lesbian who has sought ordination in the Presbyterian Church (USA) for over 20 years. Presbytery Moderator Chuck Fry wrote the following on the Presbytery’s website: The Presbytery in its 660th meeting [...]
I’ve never liked John Piper. In college, this certainly put me outside a certain “inner circle” of Whitworth religion majors (those who all read John Piper, were being “mentored” and attended Faith Bible Church). Now, I never had any problem with that, and I was always a little concerned with just how much some of [...]
I was recently sent a copy of the newly revised and expanded edition of Jack Rogers’s “Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church.” For those of you who have been following my blog for awhile, you’ll know that I have written a lot about homosexuality and the church [this post has [...]
After having reviewed Jack Rogers’s “Jesus, the Bible and Homosexuality” over the past few weeks, I still want to say I highly encourage you to check out this book and give it a read yourself. Even if you are already someone who is 100% affirming of LGBT persons, it’s still an important and helpful book [...]
Chapter 7: Recommendations for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Rogers begins the final chapter with a very strong statement: “It seems to me that the church and every person within the church is faced with a choice: to witness to an ancient Near Eastern cultural bias of male gender superiority, or to witness to Jesus Christ [...]
Chapter 6: Real People and Real Marriage In this chapter, Rogers deals with some of the stereotypes and language that surrounds the topic of homosexuality. For example, many times you’ll hear people refer to “the gay lifestyle” as inherently promiscuous, sinful and the specter of AIDS. This is just one way in which people use [...]
Chapter 5: What the Bible Says and Doesn’t Say about Homosexuality In this chapter, Rogers deals with the few biblical texts that many use as “evidence” that the Bible is against homosexuality and same-sex relations. Before I get too far into the chapter however, if you haven’t read my post, “The Bible and Homosexuality: Enough [...]
I had planned to review Chapter 5 yesterday and Chapter 6 tomorrow, in my continuing series on Jack Rogers’s book, “Jesus, the Bible & Homosexuality,” however, some things camp up that required my immediate attention. I wish I could share the details with you, but it isn’t the right time yet. As you can imagine, [...]
