Hmmm…. There’s also a long article over at BuzzFeed. Chambers has often said that his introduction to Exodus saved his life. Coming from a sheltered childhood, it was the first time he’d been around other people wrestling with the same…
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Alan Chambers on Closing Exodus
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Online Directory for Sexual Orientation Causation Research
Hi folks, as before with the research on Sexual Orientation Change (mediated and unmediated),  I now want to provide an online directory of good research into sexual orientation causation. I know of a few good studies but I’d be grateful if…
Posted in Sexuality Causation Tagged with: Biology, Consequence, Friberg, Hi Folks, Homosexuality, Nature, Nature Nurture, Nature Or Nurture, Online Directory, Sexual Development, Sexual Orientation, Submissions
Online Directory for Sexual Orientation Change Research
Hi folks, I want to provide an online directory of good research into sexual orientation change. I know of a few good studies but I’d be grateful if you knew about any more that you could let me know (in…
Posted in Orientation Change, Statistics Tagged with: Adolescence To Adulthood, Archives Of Sexual Behavior, Birth Cohort, Developmental Psychology, Dynamical Systems Theory, Early Adulthood, Female Bisexuality, Intentional Change, Journal Of Sex And Marital Therapy, Lisa M, Mark A Yarhouse, Retrospective Assessment, Same Sex Attraction, Sex Differences, Sexual Orientation, Social Science And Medicine, Stanton L Jones, Strassberg, Theory Archive, Year Longitudinal Study
The Wilkinson B&B Appeal
The full text of the appeal is available online. There are some interesting subtleties in the Justices’ ruling which are worth pointing out. Firstly, on whether Preddy vs Bull (the Cornish B&B case) was direct discrimination or not. 21. I…
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Extraordinary Affidavit from Former APA President
Nicholas Cummings, a former President of the American Psychological Association, has contributed a highly challenging affidavit as part of a legal case against JONAH, a Jewish organisation that supports orientation change. In it he claims that he and his professional…
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Steve Chalke Dodging the Crucial Question
When I had a public conversation with Steve Chalke last month, one of the questions I asked him was how he was going to handle people like myself. Where do people who choose to be celibate fit into your model?…
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Aber mit der Heimat
geht man immer herum,
durch die Welt,
dort und dort
Peter Handke
No one could describe
the Word of the Father;
but when He took flesh from you, O Theotokos,
He consented to be described, and restored the fallen image to its former beauty.
We confess and proclaim our salvation in word and image.
Kontakion of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
