{"id":903,"date":"2010-10-05T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/powerful-videos-from-homosexual-christians\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T11:51:00","slug":"powerful-videos-from-homosexual-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/10\/powerful-videos-from-homosexual-christians.html","title":{"rendered":"Powerful Videos from Homosexual Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A lot of insightful, thoughtful and provocative blog posts and videos have appeared on blogs I read in the past day or so. Here are two videos featuring homosexual Christians speaking honestly and powerfully about their own life experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnizachariassen.com\/ithinkibelieve\/?p=1253&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IThinkIBelieve+%28I+Think+I+Believe%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arni Zachariassen<\/a> shared this video from the \u201cIt Gets Better\u201d series, made by Brite Divinity School professor Stephen Sprinkle:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/ROqzzokkKnc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a video that came via a post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/anglican_communion\/the_suicides.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+episcopalcafe%2Flead+%28The+Lead%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Lead<\/a> that touches on the subject of homosexuality, bullying, suicide, and Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/KxfWl1vA1u4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a powerful post that gets at the heart of the matter, when it points out that<a href=\"http:\/\/johnshore.com\/2010\/10\/01\/how-is-being-gay-like-gluing-wings-on-a-pig\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cThe \u201csinful temptation\u201d that Christians are forever urging LGBT people to resist is love.\u201d<\/a> And a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/blogs\/archive\/2010-10\/litany-children-who-have-died-bullying?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Theolog+%28Theolog+posts%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">litany for children who have died as a result of bullying<\/a>. And last but not least, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/10\/03\/sex_and_the_scriptures\/?page=full\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article interviewing Michael Coogan on the topic of sex and the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1337378643517209048?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of insightful, thoughtful and provocative blog posts and videos have appeared on blogs I read in the past day or so. Here are two videos featuring homosexual Christians speaking honestly and powerfully about their own life experiences. 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