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Dr David Gushee: “Ending the Teaching of Contempt against the Church’s Sexual Minorities”

5/27/2016

 
This talk is worth reading (or listening to) all the way through. You don't know where it's going by reading just the first paragraph.
  • Article and Video

Homosexuality: What does the Bible say?

5/27/2016

 
Dr Jonathan Tallon, Tutor at Northern Baptist College, gives an excellent presentation on the Bible and homosexuality.
  • Audio and Powerpoint

Seven things I'm learning about Transgender Persons

5/27/2016

 
'I don’t know much about transgender issues, but I’m trying to learn.
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How about you? How much do you really know about this subject beyond all the screaming headlines and concerns about who goes to the bathroom where?'
  • Article

Desmond Tutu - 'Oppression of gays is the new apartheid'

5/27/2016

 
'Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who led a decades-long fight against racial discrimination in South Africa, says the oppression of gay people around the world is the “new Apartheid.”'
  • Article

Clobbering 'biblical' gay bashing

5/27/2016

 
A post by Mark Sandlin on his blog 'The God Article'

'We use the Bible as if it is a sex manual, telling us what is and isn’t acceptable in the eyes of the Lord your God. Thereby delineating out those whom it is okay for us to judge, and toward whom it is okay to direct all kinds of nastiness and holier-than-thouisms.The reality is that the Bible is not a sex manual. I know, shocker. Right?'
  • Article

The Cross in the Closet

5/27/2016

 
'Timothy Kurek, raised within the confines of a strict, conservative Christian denomination in the Bible Belt, Nashville, Tennessee, was taught the gospel of separation from a young age. But it wasn't long before Timothy's path and the outside world converged when a friend came out as a lesbian, and revealed she had been excommunicated by her family. Distraught and overcome with questions and doubts about his religious upbringing, Timothy decided the only way to empathize and understand her pain was to walk in the shoes of very people he had been taught to shun. He decided to come out as a gay man to everyone in his life, and to see for himself how the label of gay would impact his life. In the tradition of Black Like Me, The Cross in the Closet is a story about people, a story about faith, and about one man's "abominable" quest to find Jesus in the margins.'
  • Available on Amazon

In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World

5/27/2016

 
'There's an old Irish proverb: 'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live'. In this book much-loved poet, storyteller, theologian and speaker Pádraig Ó Tuama applies ideas of shelter and welcome to journeys of life, using poetry, story, biblical reflection and prose to open up gentle ways of living well in a troubled world.'
  • Available on Amazon

The Inclusive God

5/27/2016

 
"The Church should be inclusive because God is inclusive. Christianity is inclusive to its core. These are the claims made by this groundbreaking, timely and important book"
  • Available on Amazon

'Torn' by Justin Lee

5/27/2016

 
Whatever pictures the label "gay" evokes, you probably don't immediately envision the face of an evangelical churchgoer. Justin Lee, a self-described "gay Christian" and author of the disarmingly vulnerable Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate, is out to change your perceptions.
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  • Available on Amazon

Non binary sexuality

5/27/2016

 
In communities around the globe, genderqueer, gender-variant and gender-fluid people are rejecting the categories of male and female, and attempting to re-define gender identity. Linda Pressly asks if being non-binary breaks the last identity taboo, and explores the challenges it creates for the law, society and conventional concepts about the very nature of gender.
  • Listen or Download this BBC Radio programme
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