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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Same-sex marriage: by a former anti-gay Evangelical

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ September 30, 2014 ⋅ One comment

MARRIAGE IS FOR EVERYBODY, SAYS FORMER ANTI-GAY EVANGELICAL Title: The Bible’s Yes to Same-Sex Marriage: An Evangelical’s Change of Heart Author: Mark Achtemeier Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Release Date: June 13, 2014 Pages: 144 Mark Achtemeier has been a minister with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) since 1984, and for much of his ministry he […]

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Some notes from a Progressive (Evangelical) Christian Viewpoint

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ July 16, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Some notes from a Progressive (Evangelical) Christian Viewpoint Note from Rowland: This article has been published in Gesher, the official journal of the Council of Christians and Jews (Victoria), Vol. 4 No. 5, November 2014. As I write, today (14/7/2014) the story of a gay man who ¢â‚¬â„¢s just come out of his painful […]

HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE: six articles (and more)

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ December 8, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

[Corrected, slightly amended, 24/4/2017) “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” (H L Mencken) One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. (Victor Hugo) Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Arthur Koestler). (Sad, Arthur?). John Maynard Keynes: “When […]