Counterculture. Faith. Love.
From the monthly archives:
In a previous post DJ, a reader of my blog, made some very poignant comments that I thought were extremely important for everyone to hear. Here is Part 1 of his feelings on being gay and attending a church that is having a hard time living in the tension of what is faith and sexuality: [...]
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I just got the coolest phone call I’ve ever received: InterVarsity Press just called to tell me that my book, Love is an Orientation, just got delivered to their distribution warehouse!!!So for all of you who have pre-ordered it (and thank you so very much for that!!!), it should be arriving some point soon! And [...]
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I recently read an article by a national Christian organization claiming that having open gay and lesbian people serve in the military would be a threat to the congruency of our armed forces. Three things came to my mind: 1. A few years back a study in TIME said that 60% of publications from 1940-1950 [...]
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This past weekend my wife and I stopped in to eat at Portillos (if you’ve ever been to Chicago you know the wonderfulness that is Portillos!). When we sat down I looked at the booth next to us and I saw a very elderly couple sitting on one side, and sitting across from them on [...]
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I don’t know if I’ve ever experienced quite the time of total transparency in community more so then I did last night. The topic was Slang, Slurs and Sex: The stopping points that separate us from each other and the Father. I opened our time last night the only way I knew how—by being as [...]
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A friend of mine, Bart Campolo, brought this recent TIME Magazine article to my attention through his blog. The article is about two law professors, one who is in favor of gay marriage and the other who is against it, and their new theory in how to provide legal and political space for marriage, that [...]
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Tonight is our second Living in the Tension Community Gathering, 7pm at 5255 N. Ashland in Chicago (yes, the address is one building different). For more information you can click here. We will be discussion the language, biases and stereotypes that tear us all down. Tonight’s theme will be: Slang, Slurs and Sex: The Stopping [...]
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A friend of mine brought this recent TIME Magazine article to my attention . The article is about two law professors, one who is in favor of gay marriage and the other who is against it, and their new theory in how to provide legal and political space for marriage, that would satisfy both ends of [...]
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Last week I was watching Amazing Race. One of the contestants this season is Mel White, whom many look at as the founder of the gay Christian movement (he founded the gay Christian organization Soulforce, an activist organization that works for the “freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from religious oppression through the [...]
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I was reading Psalm 7 the other day and I noticed something that I had never noticed before: Awake, my God; decree justice. Let the assembled people gatheraround you. Rule over them from on high;let the LORD judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness,according to my integrity, O Most High. O [...]
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Just a dude trying to learn how to live and love. 
