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Month: April 2009
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I want to draw your attention to some helpful resources I've discovered in the course of writing the new expanded edition of Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church: The Queer Bible Commentary. I was introduced to this book by Dr. Holly Toensing at Xavier University who asked me to review…
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One of the things I’m most pleased about with the new edition of Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality is the new appendix which maps the progress toward LGBT equality in 10 other denominations in the United States. It’s really a fascinating story: Fifty years ago there were no out LGBT clergy or LGBT advocacy…
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The debate in the church over homosexuality has often focused on 7 or 8 sentences in the Bible or even a single word from the Old Testament taken out of context. That’s not the right way to read the Bible. The proper way to read the Bible is to treat it as a whole and…
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I was stunned last Wednesday to learn that my friend and long time editor at Westminster John Knox Press, Stephanie Egnotovich, had died suddenly. She contracted a systemic infection that doctors were unable to stop. Stephanie had been my editor on several books. She was a vigorous advocate for Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality and…
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This past weekend I was on Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy's program "State of Belief" on Air America radio. Rev. Gaddy is the President of The Interfaith Alliance and he was interviewing me about the new edition of Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality. The radio interview is now archived on the State of Belief website…
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Over the next week or so I want to share with you some exclusive excerpts from the new expanded second edition of Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church. As you know, for much of the last 2+ years I've been out on the road on a book tour in support…
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