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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]