REVIEW. Spring 2001, Vol. 26, No. 2.
Homosexuality: The use of scientific research in the church’s moral debate by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse (InterVarsity Press, 2000), 189 pp.
Homosexuality: The use of scientific research in the church’s moral debate by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse (InterVarsity Press, 2000), 189 pp.
“Not one of us doesn’t have someone close to us who is gay or lesbian.” These were the words of Republican elder statesman, former Senator Alan K. Simpson, as he addressed an inaugural breakfast honoring the Republican Unity Coalition, a new political group that includes many openly gay and lesbian Republicans.
Exodus “ex-gay” network board chairman John Paulk was caught drinking and socializing in “Mr. P’s,” a well-known gay bar in a heavily gay section of Washington, DC, on Tuesday night, September 19. Paulk, the manager of the homosexuality department of the Religious Right’s Focus on the Family, had been the cover boy for a 1998…
“Homosexuality: Speaking as Followers of Jesus” by John Suk. “What I Learned About Homosexuality” by Al Hoksbergen. “The Church’s Response to Sexual Disorder” by Melvin Hugen. “Why We Cannot Heal Among You: An Open letter to Our Christian Community” by Don and Carmen Bergman. “Homosexuality, First Person” by Paul Wise; and two related news items….
“Why not just let homosexuals `live and let live’?” This is the headline on a recent fund-raising letter from the recklessly antigay television preacher, D. James Kennedy of Fort Lauderdale.
Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A historical perspective by Martii Nissinen (Fortress Press, 1998), 208 pp.
“These results cannot be taken as evidence that homosexuals change their sexual orientation.” That’s the assessment of Mark Yarhouse, assistant professor in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at (Pat Robertson’s) Regent University. In his “Research Digest” review for Christian Counseling Today (Vol. 8,No. 2, 2000), he examines a follow-up study of 140 participants attempting…
Welcoming But Not Affirming: An Evangelical Response to Homosexuality by Stanley J. Grenz (Westminster John Knox, 1998, 210pp.)
“The Triumph of Theology Over Tradition” by Dennis Wheeler, The Web site of the Georgia Council of Conservative Citizens, November 3, 1999. “Rather off his Rocker: Calculating every little innuendo to make abnormal seem normal” by Joel Belz, World, January 22, 2000.
“My Daughter – a Lesbian?” by Kathleen Bremner as told to Candace Walters. Update, December 1999. Witness: Gay and Lesbian Clergy Report from the Front by Dann Hazel (Westminster John Knox, 2000), 147pp. by Dr. Ralph Blair This sad account of a lesbian daughter has been circulating in the “ex-gay” movement for years. That it…