Category: Books
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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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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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I got a nice e-mail the other day from David G. Myers, author of What God Has Joined Together: A Christian Case for Gay Marriage (co-authored with Letha Scanzoni). He's out with a new book that I think will be of interest to a lot of people. It's called, A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and…
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Mel White’s amazing new book, Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right has just been published. Click (here) to order the book from Amazon.com. Many years ago, Mel and I were faculty colleagues at Fuller Theological Seminary, the largest multi-denominational evangelical seminary in America. In those days, Mel was a noted Christian…
Dr. Jack Rogers 