One question I’ve been asked repeatedly is whether the issue of same sex marriage is inevitably shifting toward cultural acceptance. Yes, it is. As Kevin Drum pointed out last May in Washington Monthly, the American populace is shifting on same sex issues at the rate of one percent per year (full PDF of the report from the American Enterprise Institute here). In a less civilized manner, Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly argued this out last week on The Daily Show. ... Read more
I’m a real fan of the blogging medium, and I’m actually becoming more so. But I think it’s only one medium in a panoply of media that help us to engage an issue like same sex marriage. Blogs are good, and I have great hopes for my blogalogue with Rod, but I also hope that all of our readers will also read long-form essays and articles, books, shorter op-eds, even Tweets. An example comes from my last post. Almost immediately... Read more
In advance of my blogalogue with Rod Dreher, I want to get something off my chest. I will write about this once and only once. That is, this conversation about same sex marriage is not about me. I am heterosexual, as is Rod, which, as Bob C. commented on my last post, is a bit strange. And yet, as is so often the case, straight white men end up debating and, unfortunately, deciding the role of minority groups (or, in... Read more
Like a lot of Christians, I’ve been thinking about, praying about, and talking to others about my response to the passage of Proposition 8 in California. Beginning next week, I’ll be entering into a Beliefnet blogoalogue about same sex marriage with Rod Dreher, the “Crunchy Con.” Over this weekend, I’ll make several short posts on my own thoughts and emotions as the blogalogue approaches… I have some trepidation about taking these offline conversations online. But I know that it will... Read more
There’s been lots of talk in the last couple weeks in the punditocracy about the the above question. The talking heads seem to have come to two consensi (with, of course, notable exceptions): The United States is a “center-right” country PBO* will govern from the “center-left” I don’t know about the first bullet. It seems a bit far-fetched to me to claim that in a year of such sweeping victories for those on the “left.” I do think that most... Read more
Last Saturday night, rain and general fatigue scuttled my plans to head into Manhattan, so my hosts and I went to see the film, Rachel Getting Married at the wonderfully quirky and historic Avon Theater in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut. Several little surprises awaited me. One was that we spontaneously met up with Chuck Royce, president of the Royce Funds and of the Royce Foundation, which owns the Theater. In other words, Chuck purchased the old theater to save it from... Read more
That’s the best phrase I can come up with to describe Trinity Church, the folks with whom I spent the last three days. Trinity is a funny place — I should say, they are an unlikely church in a strange pocket of America. Greenwich, Connecticut is one of the wealthiest places in our country. I saw literally dozens of multi-million dollar homes, many of them owned by hedge fund managers, and others by Elizabeth Taylor, Mel Gibson, and Tommy Hilfiger.... Read more
The other night in Greenwich, Pete Rollins and I were asked to introduce one another. Pete said some gracious things about me, and I did my best to express my love for him: Read more
I’m in Greenwich, Connecticut for the next few days, speaking at various events at Trinity Church. Trinity is an exceptional church — emergent by any measure — in an area not exactly known for innovative churches. I’ve known a couple of Trinity’s staff members, including Sean Witty, associate pastor, and Ian Cron, who founded the church nine years ago, has recently stepped down as lead pastor, and is the author of Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale. Last night, Sean emceed... Read more
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