Category Archives: Editor’s Blog
What Does the Bible Say about Marriage?
Biblical Marriage
The first line of defense that any conservative uses to oppose gay marriage is that marriage is between an man and a woman.
That’s how the Bible defined it and that’s how culture has defined it or has it?
Do You Have to be “Liberal” to be Inclusive of Gay People?
Do we have to be “liberal” in the negative sense of the word – lacking honesty and rigor in our faith – to hold that you can be gay and Christian?
I really enjoyed this article by Dave Tomlinson where he talks about a spirituality that is “true to orthodox faith, committed to the Church and faithful to scripture” and inclusive of gay people.
He discusses how the words “liberal” and “orthodox” are both deficient labels.
Freedom as a Gay Christian in London
Like many other young Kiwis I felt the call to head to the UK and see the world. To be honest when I finally got on the plane I was not so young anymore. Just scraping in at 29 on the “youth mobility Visa”
I had spent my early twenties in a relationship and engaged in the epic battle for self-acceptance. Finally it seamed I heaved on my Katmandu pack and boarded the plane to London.
I had lived abroad before in Australia and my family had for the most part got used to my gay self in their lives (that’s a story for another day). I had also been able to get through a significant part of the journey towards wholly accepting my Christian gay self.
I was, as far as those factors were concerned, in a healthy space to make the move.
My First Gay Pride Parade
Well, I’ve now been to my first Gay Pride Parade, and I have to say, it was a little different – pleasantly different – to what I expected.
I’m over in London at the moment, and when the suggestion came up to go to the parade I was a bit reluctant. I had seen it – well selected clips of it, and others – on TV, so extrapolating that out, I thought it would be a fairly debauched occasion.
Redefining Marriage: The Gay Agenda
I was listening to a sermon yesterday from a well respected and popular pastor out of Texas. His sermon was about marriage and of course the subject of gay marriage came up as part of his sermon.
He stated that there was a push to “redefine” marriage in his country (America) and that why would we go against 1000′s of years of tradition and what tradition has told us marriage should be. He also stated that if America redefined marriage it would result in the complete breakdown of the family and society.
This, of course, is known as part of the “gay agenda” which in part is to destroy the traditional family or so conservative Christians say.
