gay? fine by me.

April 8, 2005

Next year, I am going to be serving as Co-Moderator for the Covenant Network Fellowship of Princeton Theological Seminary. This is a chapter of Covenant Network (don’t hold their bad website against them), a group within the PC(USA) that is working "toward a church as generous and just as God’s grace." I’m looking forward to [...]

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Blog dialogue limitations…

December 26, 2004

apostasy
n 1: the state of having rejected your religious beliefs
Thanks to Dave for directing me to the fact that I’ve been labeled an Apostate. The image on the right is directly from Chris P.’s blog. At first I was going to say that I’m in the company of some phenomenal prophets and Christian voices (Emergent [...]

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Homosexuality and Christian Community: Pt 2

December 24, 2004

Just a quick note in regards to Mike Todd’s comment today on my blog (and his fleshing it out on his blog). One of the biggest problem I have with people who are so sure that their traditional stance on this issue is right…is that many times (and this is not *always* the case) they [...]

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Homosexuality and Christian Community: Pt 1

December 23, 2004

Over the break, in addition to learning Hebrew, reading Old Testament and writing my three big papers, I’ve been reading Seow’s Homosexuality and Christian Community. It’s a collection of 13 essays by past and current Princeton Seminary professors, and it’s fabulous. Over the course of the 13 essays, you’ll most likely run across almost every [...]

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Life is good, because…

November 9, 2004

Life is good for a variety of reasons:

The OT Midterm was beautiful and I felt great about it when I walked out of class today.
I followed the lead of Nick, and dressed up real snazzy for the midterm, stayed in the clothes all day and was just in a really good mood.
I talked to a [...]

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Thinking about Sex: Pt 4

November 8, 2004

I just received an email from another seminarian who was at the conference, and thought I’d put up a couple links he sent me and a few others I found as I was looking around some more:
Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing: Some good resources, as well as an article by Debra Haffner [...]

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Thinking about Sex: Pt 3

November 7, 2004

Susan Andrews, former moderator of the PCUSA preached on Eros & Ethics Friday evening, using the Song of Songs as one of her primary texts. She shared her frustration, as a seminary student, with the sex curriculum that was available, specifically mentioning a Unitarian curriculum that was so factual and accurate (& even included a [...]

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Thinking about Sex: Pt 2

November 6, 2004

Since I forked over $9.99 for this T-Mobile HotSpot internet access at Starbucks (when will they frickin’ get free WiFi?!), I felt the need to get over here and use it again before we left Chicago. The conference has continued to go well, and the speakers yesterday and this morning have been pretty interesting. Last [...]

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Fourth Presbyterian Church

November 5, 2004

I’m sitting here in the 3rd to back row of Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian listening to Stephanie Paulsell, Associate Dean for Ministerial Studies and Senior Lecturer on Ministry at Harvard Divinity School. Stephanie was speaking on honoring the sexual body, of learning to talk about the things we don’t know how to (or want to) [...]

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Thinking about Sex: Pt 1

November 5, 2004

I’m here in Chicago sitting in Starbucks, just getting in a quick post before I head back to Fourth Presbyterian Church to meet my small group. We arrived here yesterday around 1pm, got settled and then attended the opening session where we watched a screening of a film/documentary called Turning Points. It was a film [...]

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