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Homosexual ‘cure’ is hell for many
1. When faith and sexuality collide Date April 14, 2013 Jill Stark Senior writer for The Sunday Age Damien Christie (left) and David Lograsso. Photo: Craig Sillitoe Right to the end, Damien Christie feared that the God he worshipped did not love him back. Rejected by his Pentecostal church for his sexuality, he underwent gay ”conversion” […]
Paradigm Shifts: where the church has got it wrong
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Marriage Equality (Keith Mascord)
April 2, 2013 How The Unthinkable Might Become Thinkable For many Christians, the idea that they might ever support same-sex marriage seems unthinkable. The chasm over which they would need to jump appears too wide; the beliefs they would need to jettison too important, the fear they might fall into an irreversible moral relativism too […]
Holy Week & Bach’s Passion (Martin Marty)
Sightings Monday | March 25 2013 Holy Week by Martin E. Marty Forget, for the moment, popes and budgets and March Madness, shall we? This week we dispense with headlines and blogs and releases, unless the latter are three-hundred or three-thousand years old. The week ¢â‚¬â„¢s calendar notifies believers and everyone else of Passover for Jews […]
HOW I’VE CHANGED MY MIND
HOW I ¢â‚¬â„¢VE CHANGED MY MIND Just found this in my files: some ideas might be expressed a little differently after six years… Rowland. Here ¢â‚¬â„¢s an expanded version of a talk I gave ¢â‚¬“ with two other members – to our small group. It ¢â‚¬â„¢s a meandering chat, I haven ¢â‚¬â„¢t put much order into it, and it ¢â‚¬â„¢s […]
Rob Bell Comes Out for Marriage Equality
Greg Carey Professor of New Testament, Lancaster Theological Seminary Rob Bell Comes Out for Marriage Equality Posted: 03/18/2013 Recently I wrote concerning Rob Bell, the enormously popular preacher and author. I encouraged Bell to reach out to his sisters and brothers in mainline Christianity, many of whom are buying his books and other products and who […]
MARRIAGE EQUALITY: Key resources…
MARRIAGE EQUALITY Key resources… ARTICLES (roughly alphabetical by author) A: About 60 most-read articles on all sorts of subjects, including this one AA: A fairly thorough overview: Homosexuality & the Bible (6 articles) AAA: Too busy? Here’s just one (Steven Chalke’s) Prof. Gary Bouma (One group wants dignity; the church, power) Conservative approaches: ethicist Margaret […]
The Last Five Christians…
The last five Christians in Deir Ezzor, on the Euphrates river – from a previous community of 4,000 Christians … Christians dream of Syria without Assad, Islamists March 13, 2013 11:57 AM | Daily Star By Jose Rodriguez Syrian Abu Ibrahim Kehabs stands on the roof of his home with his children Ibrahim, Mariam and […]
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Three old pilots are walking on the ramp. First one says, ¢â‚¬Å“Windy, isn ¢â‚¬â„¢t it? ¢â‚¬ Second says, ¢â‚¬Å“No, its Thursday! ¢â‚¬ Third one says, ¢â‚¬Å“So am I. Lest go get a beer. ¢â‚¬ =============== A monastery decided to start a fish and chips store. When the store opened, a client comes in, and asks one of […]
Catholic Church bedevilled by ‘turbulent waters’
A poisoned chalice awaits the new leader of a Catholic Church bedevilled by ‘turbulent waters’ Date March 2, 2013 Barney Zwartz, Religion Editor, Rome Crowds gather in St Peter’s Square ahead of Pope Benidict XVI’s final audience last week. Photo: AFP THE great baroque builder Bernini produced many masterpieces in Rome, but none exceeds the twin […]
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