Open? Yes! Affirming? No.
I’ve been running into a lot of comments from friends across the blogosphere lately, revolving around the issue of how the church should respond to homosexuality today. I write this response with ...
Homosexuality, Democrats & War – My Interview with Tony Campolo
I met Tony Campolo at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan, between a performance of Rigoletto, which he and his wife had attended at the Metropolitan Opera. I sat down with him to discuss some questions relate...
The Gift of Tears
Several years ago, I was speaking at an event. It was a large secular audience, so I gave my mostly secular talk (you can see a version of that here).
In that talk, I mentioned I run a faith based organizat...
My Thoughts on Sojourners, Coalition Building, and LGBTQ Rights
On my personal blog, I traced my journey on the issue of homosexuality and explored the challenges of coalition-building. It’s from this place that I’ve been reading about the recent critique of Sojourners o...
Are Evangelicals Fixated on Homosexuality?
Sigmund Freud would have something to say about the ways in which we Evangelicals seem to be fixated on homosexuality. That fixation became abundantly clear to me a few years back when I was doing radio interv...