by Brian Ellison | Nov 25, 2009 | Sexuality, Theology
– Mark Douglas This question raises a legitimate concern that all Presbyterians ought to take seriously: if we accept one form of sexuality that is sinful, what’s to keep us from accepting other sinful forms of sexuality? Yet while the question is legitimate,...
by Brian Ellison | Nov 25, 2009 | Biblical Interpretation, PC(USA) History & Polity, Theology
– J. Herbert Nelson … The Church of Jesus Christ has participated in gender and race domination and exclusion throughout history. Therefore, we must view the biblical record and our interpretation as to who is in and out with both theology and history in...
by Brian Ellison | Nov 25, 2009 | Sexuality
Nancy J. Ramsay In The Spirit and the Forms of Love, Daniel Day Williams suggested that “love has communion in freedom as its goal.” Sexual orientation refers to the way women and men self-identify in our sexual attraction to others. But it is more than a matter of...
by Brian Ellison | Nov 25, 2009 | Dialogue, Theology
– Robert C. Dykstra In most every charged discussion among Christians on homosexuality, someone will rise to insist that the church’s proper response is to love the sinner but hate the sin. This pithy saying draws from among the most potent words in the...