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Guest Post

Our Core Identity

December 2, 2011 · 16 comments

The following post is from Shawn Harrison. Shawn is a youth pastor and he regularly blogs at six11.wordpress.com. “Shawn are you ex-gay?”  “Nope.” “Then are you gay?”  “Nope.” “Wait, what?  Then what are you?” I hate this conversation. Throughout my life, I have struggled to embrace my true, core identity.  I’ve been all over the [...]

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Life Abundant

November 29, 2011 · 18 comments

The following post in the ongoing series on identity in relation to faith and sexuality is from Will. “I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly” -John 10:10 As a young man, I knew I loved other men. This knowing wasn’t sexual, or even physical, but rather something profoundly onotological.  Deeply [...]

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The next post in this series is from Matt Richards. Matt is a Church Planting Intern at Urban Village Church, a Social Worker at the University of Chicago and he received his M. Div from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Recently, I went and saw a play that one of my friends wrote called, “The [...]

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I have a very good friend, Karen Bowlby (Twitter name is @KBowlby), who lives in New York City. She, amongst other things, is an unreal writer and slam-poet who keeps it as real and raw as I’ve ever seen or heard. She holds nothing back as she is on a journey to figure out what [...]

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We are continuing the Q&A between myself and prolific theologian, author, professor and blogger, Scot McKnight, about his new book, One.Life. You can check out a number of his award winning books and blog here. Andrew’s Question: Shane Claiborne once asked, What if Jesus meant everything he said? You bring more depth to that question [...]

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We are continuing the Q&A between myself and prolific theologian, author, professor and blogger, Scot McKnight, about his new book, One.Life. You can check out a number of his award winning books and blog here. Andrew’s Question: On page 93 you said “Enemies can be loved easier than conquered.” Wow! So profound and so relevant [...]

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We are continuing the Q&A between myself and prolific theologian, author, professor and blogger, Scot McKnight, about his new book, One.Life. You can check out a number of his award winning books and blog here. Andrew’s Question: You devote a whole chapter to wisdom, and say the most important posture for one who wants to be [...]

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We are continuing the Q&A between myself and prolific theologian, author, professor and blogger, Scot McKnight, about his new book, One.Life. You can check out a number of his award winning books and blog here. Andrew’s Question: I thought your short chapter titled Peace.Life was very direct. Let me summarize some of your thoughts… Jesus’ [...]

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We are continuing the Q&A between myself and prolific theologian, author, professor and blogger, Scot McKnight, about his new book, One.Life. You can check out a number of his award winning books and blog here. Andrew’s Question: I loved this: “Often you can learn what a person is for by listening to what they are against. [...]

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We are continuing the Q&A between myself and prolific theologian, author, professor and blogger, Scot McKnight, about his new book, One.Life. You can check out a number of his award winning books and blog here. Andrew’s Question: A very interesting section of your book was when you talk about the 613 laws of the Torah [...]

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