My Quick Thought on Chick-Fil-A
I was just asked by a media outlet my thoughts on tonight’s LGBT Kiss-In Protest at Chick-Fil-A, and how Christians should respond. Here was my answer:
This Chick-Fil-A situation got out of control really qui...
Learning to Speak: Chick-fil-A & our Inability to Dialogue
The culture wars wage on. It seems just about everyone has an opinion on Chick-fil-A these days. The "Do you like their chicken sandwiches and waffle fries?" discussion has been traded for asking whether or n...
I’m Heterosexual and that's Not Okay
The title for this piece came to me after a focus group meeting on sexuality with some Incedo missionaries. This is not a research based paper. It is not a report on the statistics about sexual and relational a...
An Open Letter to Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy
NOTE: This was written a day prior Chic-Fil-A made the public statement that their tradition "is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect - regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orien...
'Pray Away the Gay' No More?
Late last week, Paul Burkhart jumped into the fray of online conversation surrounding Alan Chambers and Exodus International’s recent significant change in philosophy regarding ‘reparative therapy.’ On my pers...
I Went to Gay Pride
OK, so I am drawn to what is controversial. I want to be there, to see for myself, to make my own judgments. If an event divides decent people into sides that condemn each other, I want to understand bo...
On justice, marriage, and Obama
…because not quite enough has been said about this yet.
If you’ve read a news magazine, been online or watched CNN in the past week, you know that May 9 President Obama finally came out and declared he was f...
Pastor Worley and the Slippery Slope of “Speaking the Truth in Love”
Photo By davidz
Every time I blog about homosexuality and the church, I get at least one email or comment that says that I am either wasting my time or sowing dissent. As a straight, married, Asian Ame...
Let Them Eat Cake
That's what she said.
It wasn't out of malice or even hard-heartedness that Marie Antoinette supposedly uttered these now infamous words, but out of a barnacled ignorance that grows and eventually blinds all ...
The Church and the New Civil Rights Movement
Richard “Dick” Brogan was a personal friend, and he was one of my heroes.
Dick was a white Mississippi Baptist minister who worked tirelessly to build relationships between whites and blacks during segregatio...