Peter Ould on July 2nd, 2009

In my last post I looked at the question of what forms of homosexual relationship might have been recognised by Paul and the other New Testament writers. I concluded with the observation that given the diverse Roman / Hellenistic world that the NT writers operated in, they would have been familiar with a significant number [...]

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Peter Ould on April 18th, 2009

Colin Coward, in his latest blog post, demonstrates an unfortunate inability to discern what the conservative position on same-sex activity actually is. Anyone who bases their attitudes to LGBT people on the official teaching of the church risks making statements which are homophobic. Davis Booker has been suspended for making discriminatory comments about a person’s [...]

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Peter Ould on August 23rd, 2008

I’ve just put the following comment on the Covenant Blog thread which I discussed earlier: I cannot imagine what standard conservative language does to LBGT people. Is there any way to state the conservative position *without* offending? I would want to argue that the answer to this question is an unequivocal "yes". The problem often [...]

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Peter Ould on April 11th, 2008

So Colin Coward has produced a response to blog posts on this and other sites, challenging him and Changing Attitude on the various allegations made in the two press releases of the past few weeks. This third press release is disappointing and fails to address the issues raised in conservative blogs. Shall we have a [...]

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