I have had a couple of questions recently from folks wondering how to process difficult Old Testament legal requirements relative to today’s moral climate. Below is an excerpt from an email I sent in response to such a question: Thank you for your email. You are asking a very important question. Let me attempt an READ MORE
William Bennet reminds us that years ago in the Kruger National Park in South Africa there were so many African elephants that researchers had to thin them out. They did this by killing some of them, but they also took a number of the younger males and transfered them to another game range, the Pilanesberg READ MORE
In attempting to find freedom from any sin and shame cycle, and particularly from sexual sin and shame, some strategic steps must be formulated and pursued, and a beginning point is this very critical truism: A Man or Woman Becomes What He or She Thinks About All Day Long. With this truism locked in our READ MORE
While it is true that the world gives us a terrible message regarding sex and sexuality, it is equally true that from within the religious establishment, and, by extension, from within many of our families, we also have a distorted message. The world tells us that we are sophisticated animals with no moral code who READ MORE
As awkward as it may sound, sex and sexuality are foundational for community, and vice versa. Not, of course, that the world gets to peer into the bedroom (though anymore it seems it could!). The idea is that sex and sexuality is not something found in isolation from the rest of the world. And the READ MORE
Let me be very clear: I’m weary of the world owning the conversation about sex and sexuality. It is time for the church to take over the conversation, not in the standard fundamentalist manner that calls for nothing other than prudish snickers and pounding judgment, but in an honest, clear, Word-centered way that not only READ MORE
