LGBTQ

Dallas Seminary: In this episode, Dr. Darrell L. Bock and Caleb Kaltenbach discuss balancing grace and truth in LGBT engagement, focusing on Kaltenbach’s experiences in the gay community and in church ministry.

How ‘LBGT-Affirming’ Is Like KJV-Onlyism

The Nashville Statement is well-intentioned, some genuinely sound stuff is contained there, but the substance in places is superficial, and some parts are not beneficial to an evangelical witness to LGBTI people.

“Conservative websites were wrong to claim that an LGBT mega-donor wants to punish Christians; Christians have nothing to worry about, as long as they support an LGBT agenda, reporter Andy Kroll concluded.” CPost

Dr. Michael Brown: Because she had a serious bio, identifying herself as an LGBT “Board member & Leg Policy Analyst,” I decided to engage her. What follows is our Twitter interaction, verbatim.

“Manning, then a low-level Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, was arrested in 2010 and pled guilty in 2013 to 10 charges related to releasing classified information through the WikiLeaks organization.” BPNews

“The Southern Baptist chain stated Thursday that the author’s statements ‘contradict LifeWay’s doctrinal guidelines,’ and it has discontinued selling her books in its 185 stores or online.”

Dr. Michael Bird: The objection of SBL is that IVCF’s employee policy requires subscription to a document called “Theological Summary of Human Sexuality,” which in SBL’s mind severely restricts free inquiry.

Brendan Eich, Fired From Mozilla for Defending Marriage, Has a Brave New Web Browser

Roger Olson: Perhaps we are deluding ourselves by thinking we can go on acting as if our government values us (except when we kowtow to its expectations and demands).

Note: David Gushee’s article is linked at SI here.