According to Pew Research Center, the percentage of Americans who say homosexuality should be approved by society grew from 46% in 1994 to 70% in 2017. Over the same period, the share who say it should be discouraged declined from … Continue reading When Someone You Love Is Gay | Influence Podcast
How should Christians think about human sexuality? That is the question Todd Wilson asks in his new book, Mere Sexuality: Rediscovering the Christian Vision of Sexuality. Wilson (Ph.D., Cambridge University) is senior pastor of Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, … Continue reading Mere Sexuality | Book Review
In this episode, I talk to Dr. Todd Wilson about the Christian church’s historic consensus about human sexuality, bringing Christian theology to bear on a controversial topic. Wilson is senior pastor of Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, Illinois, as well … Continue reading Dr. Todd Wilson | Influence Podcast
Today, over at InfluenceMagazine.com: Jeff Leake and I talk in today’s Influence Podcast about why every believer needs to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. We note two Gallup polls indicating a sea-change of American opinion about same-sex marriage particularly … Continue reading Thursday’s Influence Online Articles
Joe Dallas, Speaking of Homosexuality: Discussing the Issues with Kindness and Clarity (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2016). The Christian sexual ethic is out of step with the times. This is true across a wide range of heterosexual behaviors, such … Continue reading Review of ‘Speaking of Homosexuality’ by Joe Dallas
Bill T. Arnold, Seeing Black and White in a Gray World: The Need for Theological Reasoning in the Church’s Debate Over Sexuality (Franklin, TN: Seedbed Publishing, 2014). Paperback / Kindle Few topics generate as much heated conflict among Christians as homosexuality does. Should pastors solemnize and churches recognize same-sex marriages? Should denominations ordain non-celibate gays and lesbians for ministry? The conflict over these questions has been evident among mainline Protestant churches for some time now, but it is increasingly appearing among evangelical Protestant churches too. In 2008, Adam Hamilton—who pastors America’s largest United Methodist church in Leawood, Kansas—published Seeing Gray … Continue reading Review of ‘Seeing Black and White in a Gray World’ by Bill T. Arnold
Stanley J. Grenz, Welcoming But Not Affirming: An Evangelical Response to Homosexuality (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998). $30.00, 224 pages. Together with North American society, North American churches are wrestling with the moral meaning of homosexuality. At the outset of Welcoming But Not Affirming, Stanley J. Grenz frames the ethical question this way: “Should the church continue to condemn homosexual behavior, or has the time come for it to affirm gays and lesbians in its midst?” (p. 2). As the title of the book states, Grenz’s answer is that the church should welcome homosexual persons without affirming their … Continue reading Review of ‘Welcoming But Not Affirming’ by Stanley J. Grenz
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