A few thousand Southern Baptists from all over the United States filed in to the civic center in downtown Indianapolis. We sang hymns together, led by slick looking choir leaders. President Bush addressed us via satellite, which triggered the biggest applause of the whole event. I sat and observed, excited...

I have a friend who has recently come out as lesbian.  Let’s call her Amy. Like many people who love Jesus and are gay, Amy has struggled for many, many years to come to terms with her sexuality.  Recently, she reconciled what many in the church consider irreconcilable.  (See this site for...

As the debate over LGBT rights rages on, rising statistical trends show growing support for the gay community in the church. At the forefront of this movement is the Gay Christian Network, a non-profit organization that has worked with the likes of Tony and Peggy Campolo and Canadian religious program...

This past week, the American Psychological Association declared their opposition to the theory that homosexual people can be “fixed” by reparative therapy like that used in Exodus and other ex-gay ministries. The definitive statements came from the board’s examination of dozens of case studies...

A disclaimer before I start: though I love Ted Haggard as a fellow human and Christian, I’m not a fan. I wasn’t a fan “before” and I’m not a fan of Haggard 2.0: the victim doing the talk-show circuit, fertilizing ground for a book proposal. But as I watched him on Oprah yesterday (just because...

Last Saturday morning I woke up to a clear blue sky. So clear and blue, like only Los Angeles can do to autumn. One would never have known there was a fire raging 2o miles west in Sylmar. But that’s what the Santa Ana winds do: they blow westward, and so I never saw that smoke from my home. But...