“Sex Without Bodies” by Andy Crouch, Christianity Today, July/August 2013 “Christianity and Homosexuality” by Tim Keller, Redeemer Report, October 2013 By Dr. Ralph Blair (PDF version available here) The executive editor at CT thinks: “There is really only one conviction that can hold [the LGBT] coalition of disparate human experiences together [and it’s] the irrelevance…
Paul for Everyone: I Corinthians by N. T. Wright (John Knox Press, 2004) 272 pp. Bible, Gender, Sexuality by James V. Brownson (Eerdmans, 2013) 300 pp. (PDF version available here) A popular Anglican bishop grants that two words in I Corinthians 6:9 “have been much debated” but he claims that “experts have now established [that…
“Marriage and Politics” by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George, National Review, February 11, 2013 Cal Thomas, “When Public Opinion Trumps Eternal Truth”, Washington Examiner, March 27, 2013 (PDF version available here) Sixty years ago, a homophile monthly’s cover read: “HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE?” (ONE, August 1953) In 1963, its cover dropped the question…
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes by E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O’Brien (InterVarsity, 2012), 240 pp; Kent Van Til, “Singleness and Celibacy”, Perspectives, December 2012; “Opposing the Truth-Trashers” by Joel Belz, World, November 17, 2012; “Our Culture of Deceit” by Joel Belz, World, December 15, 2012; “Where ‘little lies’ Lead”, by Joel Belz, World,…
Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christian Debate by Justin Lee (Jericho Books, 2012) 259 pp. (PDF version available here) Since lesbian and gay youth are ridiculed, caricatured, guilt-tripped, kicked out of families, churches and Christian schools, it’s not inexplicable that they’d try to steer clear of their abusers – including the religious ringleaders of…
“More Than a Legal Issue”, Christianity Today, July/August, 2012. “The Party Line: No Such Thing as an Ex-gay” by Eric Metaxas, Breakpoint.org, June 6, 2012. (PDF version available here) Over the years my correspondence from CT editors has ranged from bizarre, intrusively personal, even prurient, through gracious and fully supportive. Here, editors who enjoy the…
“Old Testament Law and the Charge of Inconsistency” by Tim Keller. Redeemer Report, June 2012. (PDF version available here) When we’re said to “pick and choose” Bible verses, it can be frustrating. Keller says: “I vainly hope that one day someone will access their common sense (or at least talk to an informed theological advisor)…
“Alan Chambers: Change We Can Believe In” by Jamie Dean, World, December 17, 2011. “NARTH Statement on Sexual Orientation Change”, NARTH.com, January 25, 2012. “More Unmerited Mercy” by Marvin Olasky, World, February 11, 2012 The Religious Right’s World magazine named Exodus head Alan Chambers its “Daniel of the Year” for 2011, celebrating discordantly that his…
The Gay Gospels by Keith Sharpe (O-Books, 2011), 203 pp. A “self-help manual” from a Gscene writer claims we’ve been kept in the dark about Bible passages that “celebrate homoerotic desire and relationships”. Sharpe “uncovers” what he calls “open and hidden affirmations of LGBT lives in the Bible” and he urges readers to “learn [his]…
“Liberty’s Loss” by Tim Dalrymple, World, July 30, 2011. “Born Homosexual? A Parent’s Guide” by Chuck Colson, Breakpoint.org, June 1, 2011. “Evangelicals and the Gay Moral Revolution” by Albert Mohler, Jr., The Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2011. The scary teaser in the Religious Right’s World magazine is: “Same-sex marriage in New York threatens the…