June 2019 Canyonwalker Connections Newsletter To subscribe for monthly updates and excepts, email: Newsletter@canyonwalkerconnections.com Finding David If you’ve been following the journey of discovery to find out why the translation team of the 1946 Revised Standard Version of the Bible made the decision to translate two Greek words to one word, “homosexual,” each newsletter will […]
Affirming God’s Image: Addressing the Transgender Question with Science and Scripture (Lexham Press, June 2019) written by J. Alan Branch (professor of Christian ethics at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO, Southern Baptist, and staff member of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberties Council), is the sixth such book I have read in the […]
In 2011, several lesbian and gay friends asked me to help them clarify the LGBTQ policies of Summit Church, Sparks, Nevada. They were not hearing anything directly from the pulpit about faith and sexual orientation and it seemed they were welcome, but they just wanted to know for sure what the policies were. Leadership can […]
I write to inform and update. A few years ago, as my posts were circulating more widely, there was an increase in nastigrams. The writers of these non-love letters often cloaked their identity using holy-nuanced identifiers: Godsmessenger, BibleTruth, HisServant, you get the drift. Because I had a notification alert system set up for my blog, […]
In 1959, David was a 21-year-old first-year seminary student in Canada. Everyone around him recognized him as a spiritually sensitive person. His mother knew when he was six years old that she needed to switch church homes so that young David could be in a better Sunday school program. His minister, who had watched […]
Just finished this book, written in 1844. WOW! Kaan is the first author to write about sexual perversions in humans. (sexual perversion is ANY non-procreative sex) The book was only recently translated from Latin. The author wrote in Latin because it was “too dangerous to hand over to the general public.” I know the study […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
