By Tim Keller, Redeemer Presbyterian Church. The relationship of homosexuality to Christianity is one of the main topics of discussion in our culture today. In the fall of last year I wrote a review of books by Wesley Hill and Sam Allberry that take the historic Christian view, in Hill’s words: “that homosexuality was not…
By the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors What we see is a huge issue as the church thinks through the issue of homosexuality. Faithful churches of Jesus Christ have continued to affirm the sinfulness of homosexual behavior. The church has struggled a bit more, however, with the issue of same-sex attraction. Nick Roen has a…
By Robert A.J. Gagnon, First Things Newsweek, in an article by Kurt Eichenwald, says that Christians who regard homosexual practice as sin (or who—horror!—favor prayer in public school) “are God’s frauds, cafeteria Christians,” “hypocrites,” “Biblical illiterates,” “fundamentalists and political opportunists,” and “Pharisees.” To support his slurs, Eichenwald first tries to undermine reliance on Scripture as a…
By Matt Smethurst, The Gospel Coalition. For some, reading is a blast. Reading serious books feels like eating steak, entertaining ones like dessert. For others, though, reading is like eating vegetables. You know it’s important, but it’s not all that fun. So you find other things to do instead. “Many struggle to find a good…
By Bethany Jenkins, Christianity Today My “current reads” make their home on my nightstand. Like residents of a high-rise apartment building in Manhattan, they are piled high and constantly in transition. Sometimes a book has a one-night stand, like Amy Julia Becker’s Small Talk, which I finished in just six hours. Other times one stays…
By Eric Metaxas, Breakpoint Commentaries Want to offend a Millennial? You could just open your Bible and read it in front of him. But if you live out the teachings of Scripture, you just might win him over. I’ll explain. Earlier this year, I told you about some of the challenges in reaching Millennials for…
By Ed Stetzer, The Exchange blog How well do American Christians know their Bibles? Hint: not well. Do you recognize these Bible phrases or allusions? Rarely a week goes by without any one of us quoting or alluding to that great book simply in our conversations and chatter. These are among the phrases having origins…
By Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service Museum of the Bible. That’s it. The name of the museum under construction in Washington, D.C., is official. “We don’t need more to tell people who and what we are,” the museum’s founder and funder, Steve Green, told Religion News Service. But, as always with the Bible, nothing…
By Nancy Guthrie, Desiring God Let’s admit it, there are certain parts of the Bible we skim because . . . well . . . because we think they’re boring. They’re repetitive, overly detailed, full of names and places we can’t pronounce. So why bother with them? There are many reasons — not the least…
By Rosaria Butterfield In 1996, when Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), I grieved with my people. I was an atheist then, and lived in a monogamous lesbian relationship, working as a tenure-track professor specializing in English literature and Queer Theory. Seventeen years later, in the summer of 2013, the Supreme Court…