Sexuality Essays
I’m starting a process of putting some of my essays on Sexuality online for all to read and rip apart. They represent my aggregate thinking on sexuality over the past few years. The links are to pdf files of the …
Category: Classical Spirituality
Gorbachev the Believer
The one-time head of the world’s most powerful officially atheistic state, now believes in Jesus, the divine Son of God. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying …
Ascending Mount Carmel – One Step at a Time – Part Four
It is my contention that the gay revisionist movement has been in some senses internally betrayed. An initial struggle (to some degrees I would argue rightly) against rampant homophobia in the church, against the experience of inadequate and sometimes derogative …
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Trusting Jesus with our Falleness
A fantastic post on Stand Firm highlighting one response to the accusation that the conservative side is just full of homophobes. Read the below and then go to the full post. RCtoEC: Welcome to Stand Firm. I’m guessing that your …
Ascending Mount Carmel – One Step at at Time – Part Three
In the previous parts of this series I raised the question as to whether pro-gay Christian literature embraced or fled from concepts of purgation. We also looked at some ex-gay writings and saw that in their guidance they seemed to …
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Ascending Mount Carmel – One Step at at Time – Part Two
This is the second part of a series examining how pro-gay and ex-gay theologies deal with purgation. We’re looking at Kenneth Leech’s "Soul Friend" and seeing whether the ex-gay ministries act as a classic spiritual director in guiding the disciple …
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