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Eve Tushnet has my kind of tongue-in-cheek style…
2. Let your kid think your love is conditional. Again, you don’t even have to say this out loud. Many kids just assume, unless they’re told differently, that they’ll only be loved if they do what you want.
Best of all, your child will guess that God’s love [...]
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Jay has some excellent pointers, and heterosexuality isn’t one of them!!!
Oh sure, accoding to them we’re not sinning by being content celibates, but we’re not whole either. We haven’t completed our "journey towards heterosexuality."
I got a little mad when I first read that, but then it saddened me. It saddened me to know that there [...]
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Who said the following?
I call myself a Christian. I believe in Jesus, I believe in what Jesus did and in the absolution of sins. I believe that he put himself on the cross to take away human sins, in order to give people the opportunity to get to God through him.
I believe that’s the fundamental [...]
Andrew and Giles Goddard (no relation) have been engaged in a series of online discussions on homosexuality. The latest missive from Andrew to Giles is interesting because Andrew has deliberately upped the ante and challenged Giles to reply with a coherent, biblical pro-gay theology.
As you say, ‘we have to start engaging with the more crunchy [...]
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Lying in bed this morning Gayle said "Jesus had a belly-button". Quick as a flash I answered, "No, Jesus has a belly-button".
