Are Christian same-sex relationships an oxymoron? Or is claiming that God prohibits love – not lust but love – what is really strange in the current discussions? If you follow the early reviews of New Testament scholar Richard Hays’ new book The Widening of God’s Mercy, written with his son Christopher, they are a very revealing exercise in missing the point. The complaints from conservatives consistently focus on Hays and Hays not making the argument through exegesis. In other words, in... Read more