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How Should Christians Think About Homosexuality and Marriage?
I aim as a rule to avoid protracted debates on Twitter (sorry, I just refuse to call it X). But recently, I broke my own command. The context was this long tweet by Jared Moore, a Southern Baptist pastor who’s recently released a new book expanding his dissertation on lust and the doctrine of sin. It’s called The Lust of the Flesh, and it’s not accessible wherever books are sold, but anyone interested can buy it directly from the publisher here. (Disclaimer: I haven’t read the book, although I’ve made a good-faith attempt to understand Moore’s position based on his very active social media posting and several podcasts summarizing his work.) To explain why his book is necessary, Moore took aim at a clip from a lecture by Sam Allberry, a former Anglican priest known in Protestant circles for his work on homosexuality and the church. In context, Allberry is addressing a mixed university audience of Christians and non-Christians. He says that even though it would be “lovely” if his own same-sex attraction was healed, he h
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Sprong.
Hateful people have been attacking you on X, declaring they will not read your writing because of your sexuality. I hope they don’t. It would produce them wiser and happier, and that’s the last thing I want for them.
But in response, let me participate a story I told on Friday’s podcast. It’s about John MacArthur, the steadfast pastor of Grace Church in Los Angeles, who died last week. I always liked and respected him, but I disagreed with him fairly often. I browse one or two of his books, and admired their scholarship and consistency, but my view of Christ’s communication was simply different.
For one thing, he believed homosexuality is a sin per se and that gay people should be confronted with it because it was “defining.” I believe, as I wrote recently, in hierarchy and grace. In this case, that means that, yes, the union of man and woman should be held at the center of human experience. But since creation seems to produce a homosexual person now and again, we should welcome them with grace.
Now, when Covid hit, my surgeon warned me that I was particularly vulnerab
“The Existential Despair of Godification”by Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage, October 4, ; “Homosexuality is being accepted in prominent conservative, Christian circles. Here’s proof” by Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews, October 7, ; “Eastern University Changes Its Doctrines on Marriage” by Terry Mattingly, GetReligion, November 24,
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Greenfield is an Israeli-born conservative author at Frontpage, published by 60’s-Leftist, now conservative, David Horowitz, after he backed Black Panthers and published his periodical Ramparts. (I was then a charter subscriber to Ramparts, to stay up-to-date).
Greenfield begins with a basic insight: “When we stopped believing in God, we started believing we had to become gods.” Adam and Eve tried that and it led them into deadly disasters. Following them, we fail as they did, and we can’t save us from ourselves.
Greenfield illustrates with unused books for kids that, he warns, “have to be checked for razor blades. … Accept Tikkun Olam Ted.” Tikkun Olam, is a Hebrew w
Andrew Klavan shares how horror helped lead him to Christ: 'Our faith is not fragile'
In the new book The Kingdom of Cain: Conclusion God in the Literature of Darkness, bestselling crime novelist and Daily Wire podcast host Andrew Klavan makes a provocative claim: horror helped lead him to Christ.
“When I was 19 years old, I was an agnostic. I read Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, a novel about an axe murderer. And I remember thinking, 'There is no world on which this cannot be evil.' That moment forced me onto the road toward God,” the year-old author said in a recent interview with The Christian Post.
For decades, Klavan, an award-winning crime novelist and screenwriter, has built his career exploring crime, corruption and human depravity through fiction. But with The Kingdom of Cain, he goes deeper, using real-life murders, including the biblical tale of Cain and Abel, to explore how art rooted in darkness can still lead toward divine fact and help Christians unearth the mind of Christ.
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