After I finished writing my book Walking the Bridgeless Canyon in 2014, I wanted to be productive beyond giving seminars and speaking at conferences. Originally I had planned on doing a chapter in the book diving into the dangers of Christian ministries that expect LGBTQ Christians to “fix” their orientation and perhaps even marry heterosexually, […]
Bostock v. Clayton County (June 15, 2020), a landmark Supreme Court of the United States decision (5-3), ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ employees from employment discrimination by expanding the definition of “sex” to include sexual orientation or gender identity. Within the environs of conservative political and religious […]
Owen Strachan and Gavin Peacock recently co-authored a trilogy of books offering their views on “what the Bible teaches about” lust, homosexuality, and “transgenderism.” The first book of the series, “What Does the Bible Teaches About Lust?” (Christian Focus, 2020, UK) unlike the other two books in the series, does not directly spotlight the LGBTQ […]
Owen Strachan and Gavin Peacock recently co-authored a trilogy of books offering their views on “what the Bible teaches about” lust, homosexuality, and “transgenderism.” I’ve read and reviewed over 6 dozen books in the Bible and sexual orientation/gender identity genre. Though Strachan and Peacock rehash much of what’s typically presented from conservative-leaning sectors, their books […]
Owen Strachan and Gavin Peacock recently co-authored a trilogy of books offering their views on “what the Bible teaches about” lust, homosexuality, and “transgenderism.” I’ve read and reviewed over 6 dozen books in the Bible and sexual orientation/gender identity genre. Typical of what has been presented from conservative-leaning sectors, Strachan and Peacock rehash much of […]
Christopher Doyle’s book “The War on Psychotherapy: When Sexual Politics, Gender Identity, and Mental Health Collide” (Institute for Healthy Families, 2019) is the author’s reaction and response to the past forty-five years of increasing awareness of homosexuality and the desire of the LGBTQ to gain equal status and civil rights denied them. Some overall comments […]
Tim Bayly authored “The Grace of Shame” (Warhorn Media, 2017). To understand Bayly’s writing and worldview, it may be useful to know some of his background. [READ FULL REVIEW ON AMAZON] Bayly was ordained in the John Knox Presbytery (the Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin portion) of the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA). In 1991 he transferred his […]
I was reviewing yet another book in the Christian non-LGBTQ affirming niche recently. I’ve now read and reviewed forty-five such books. Beyond the author’s personal story if it is a memoir, they all share a few similar core messages: homosexuality is sexual brokenness. We cannot find the reason for it, but it likely, at its […]
Idecided to read this book after watching the Freedom March live from DC in May 2019. Every story and testimony from the stage recounted tragedy suffered by the person now declaring themselves to be no longer gay, or lesbian, or transgender. Knowing McCall was the organizer, I decided to read his memoir. I find the […]
If you search my Amazon profile, you will see that I read and review books — almost four dozen books, now — in the Christian non-LGBTQ affirming niche. They all share a few similar core messages: homosexuality is sexual brokenness. We cannot find the reason for it, but it likely, at its point of origin, […]
As Ed Oxford and I work on the upcoming book, Forging a Sacred Weapon: How the Bible Became Anti-Gay (anticipated publish date Winter 2020), I’ll be updating our progress with interesting stories. At its core premise, Forging a Sacred Weapon considers a simple question “As we knew better about human sexuality, did we revisit assumptions the 1946 Revised […]
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, […]
