Public request for repentance from Christopher Yuan and Multnomah Press, I wrote a thoughtful, thorough and critical review of Christopher Yuan’s latest book “Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story” (Multnomah, WaterBrook Multnomah, Division of Crown, 2018) that went live on Amazon November 27, 2018. Within 10 hours of […]
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Pushing Back on Yuan and Publisher’s Attempt to Censor Review of Holy Sexuality
UPDATE: November 30: Bigger guns directly protested my reviewing on Yuan and other Christian authors. I was depicted by them as a “layperson and a troll,” where as Yuan is an academic. My goodness. One of the book’s five star reviewers has only reviewed a door latch. Do we really want to dismiss the reviews on […]
A War of Loves by David Bennett-A Review
Twenty-nine year old David Bennett, an Australian living in the UK, has just released his first book, “A War of Loves” (Zondervan, 2018). Bennett self-identifies as a gay celibate Christian. Bennett states, “Identifying with others in the LGBTQI world can open up doors to engage people who need to hear about Christ.” (p. 215) So, […]
Holy Sexuality by Christopher Yuan-Book Review
Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story by Christopher Yuan (Multnomah Press, 2018) Iunderstand why Yuan’s work is popular. First, he’s a nice guy (yes, we’ve met), and is a great speaker with a compelling story, the kind that Christians love to hear—the classic bad boy, really bad […]
Anchored Leadership Conference—Letter to Greg Stier
November 11, 2018 Greg, I attended the Anchored Conference in San Juan Capistrano last weekend. First, I appreciated being there and listening to you, Sean, Caleb, and Jonathan. I also appreciated the short exchange we had in the doorway Saturday morning mostly based around our love of our mothers. I know you lost yours 14 […]
Anchored Leadership Conference—Letter to Caleb Kaltenbach
November 11, 2018 Caleb, I first became aware of you when you published your book Messy Grace. While it was clear that your intention was to write with a loving and gracious attitude, you likely recall that I was not a fan of your book. I pointed out objections in my review of your book. […]
Anchored Leadership Conference—Letter to Sean McDowell
November 11, 2018 Sean, Thank you for your gracious welcome as I arrived at the recent Anchored Conference in San Juan Capistrano last weekend. I attended to listen and observe. Wanting to be respectful of your event, I intended to follow up with emails with you, and each of the other main speakers. As you […]
Anchored Leadership Conference—Letter to Jonathan McKee
November 11, 2018 Jonathan, I appreciated your taking the time to sit with me over lunch last Saturday at the Anchored Conference in San Juan Capistrano and have a conversation. I think we could both agree that we care deeply about both youth in and outside the church, and that the witness of Jesus Christ […]
Anchored Leadership Conference Responses November 2018
The Anchored Leadership Conference took place on Friday and Saturday, November 2-3, 2018. The stated intent of the gathering targeted at youth and ministry leaders was the “Equipping (of) church leaders to reach a sexually ‘fluid’ generation with grace and truth in an ‘everything’s okay’ world.” The main speakers were Jonathan McKee (The Source […]
Gay Girl Good God by Jackie Hill Perry—Book Review
I’ve read dozens of books in the same genre of Christian titles of which “Gay Girl Good God” by Jackie Hill Perry is the latestentry. Perry’s first book is a memoir of her life thus far from “gay girl once” to “what God’s goodness will do to a soul once grace gets to it.” (p. […]
Fixing the Gays and Continually Moving the Goalpost
There’s a new method of “fixing the gays” that is descending from heaven. Or more correctly stated, since previous methods and therapies to convert those who are homosexual to heterosexuality have become the negative subject of movies, books, and documentaries, and have been found by experts and LGBTQ people themselves to be damaging, ineffective, […]
Unclobbering the Tangled Mess
Since publishing my first book, Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach between the Church and the LGBT Community, I have given presentation in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand using a long timeline affixed to the wall to graphically illustrate the interplay of historical, cultural, psychological, medical, social, and religious factors resulting in the […]
Where Did Christian Reparative Therapy for LGBTQs Originate?
In a prior post, I wrote about an exploratory trip to Yale University that was taken to dig into the translation notes on the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible (1947 NT, 1952 full Bible). It was in the RSV that the word “homosexual” appeared for the first time in any translation, or in […]
When Harry Became Sally by Ryan T. Anderson—A Book Review
Ryan T. Anderson, research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, when asked why he was working on “When Harry Became Sally—Responding to the Transgender Moment,” wrote “The simple answer is that I couldn’t shake from my mind the stories of people who had de-transitioned. They are heartbreaking. Those most vulnerable to the transgender moment need a […]
Fiercely We Will Battle
January Book #2 Update Ed Oxford and I went to Yale University in September 2017 to check an assumption I had made about the word “homosexual” being placed in the Revised Standard Version (RSV) (1946)—the first usage of “homosexual” in any Bible translation, in any language. (Read the story here.) While searching through the archives, […]