If you’ve linked here from today’s interview with me on the Xtranormal blog, hi! Welcome! I see that at the moment the interview has a few missing links in it. I’m sure they’ll fix those right up, but, in the meantime, this’ll fill in some of the blanks. This is the “Theology Bears” video mentioned in the interview: This is the video my wife Catherine made (the one mentioned under the question about my favorite Xtranormal videos not made by... Read more
Good morning! Happy Monday! Okay, well, anyway, it’s Monday. Above is my entry in the Xtranormal Film Festival. As you may know, I postponed this week’s episode of The Smith Family Chronicles so that I’d have time to make this short. What I didn’t know when I did that (by which I mean when, at the end of the last SFC episode, I had the narrator say “Tune in two weeks from now [instead of the usual ‘next week’] for... Read more
John [reads the letter I got in this morning], Thank you for your article on why women stay in abusive relationships. [Seven Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships, and How to Defeat Each One of Them.] I appreciated reading the posts from others. You all have me thinking. I have been engaged and, until the last three months, living with a man whom I thought was uniquely suited to be my soul mate. (more…) Read more
El suicidio en los adolescentes gays: una entrevista con el CEO de The Trevor Project [Esta entrevista, con Charles Robbins, el entonces director ejecutivo del Trevor Project, fue publicada en mi blog en septiembre de 2010]. Charles Robbins es el director ejecutivo y CEO de The Trevor Project, la principal organización nacional centrada en la prevención de crisis y suicidio entre jóvenes lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transgénero y aquellos que se están cuestionando su orientación sexual (LBGTQ). Antes que nada, a... Read more
Sometimes people who begin their spiritual journey full of inspired joy and a passion for loving God become, over time, dogmatic in their beliefs, and harsh in their moral judgements of others. In this, episode seven of The Smith Family Chronicles, we discover what might have occasioned that unhappy progression in the life of one man. Watch other episodes of The Smith Family Chronicles. Read more
The message of this children's movie couldn't be more caustic. Read more
Меня недавно пригласили на пару гей-свадеб. Так вот, с тем, что я — христианин, и все такое, я задал себе известный вопрос: Что бы сделал Иисус? (Что я не так часто у себя спрашиваю, честно говоря, так как Иисус мог, например, воскрешать людей из мертвых и превращать воду в вино, а я, по сравнению, едва могу вытянуться из постели утром и (или) превратить воду в кофе. Можно с уверенностью сказать, что много его вариантов мне не по силам.) Размышление о... Read more
A reader writes in to ask if I regret becoming a Christian. (Like I had a choice.) Read more
The Lord works in strange and mysterious ways. Or not. Read more
This is Scott Anderson’s “scruple,” or objection based on conscience, to Article G-6.0106b of the Presbyterian (U.S.A.) Book of Order, which has long been used to exclude openly gay and lesbian people from being deemed acceptable for ordination. It was due in large part to this document that Scott Anderson became the first openly gay man ordained for ministry by Presbyterian (U.S.A.). Affirmation of Conscience Regarding G-6.0106b Scott D. Anderson With this statement I declare to the Presbytery of John... Read more
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