Jul 19
Homosexuality
Posted on Sunday, July 19, 2009 in Uncategorized
A thoughtful (if a little indirect) post from Tony Jones on this topic is HERE.
A page from Bob Hyatt on N.T. Wrights recent comments on this topic (referred to by Tony in his post) is HERE.
This is a subject all followers of Jesus need to wrestle with, within the terms of God’s love and good gift for all humanity.
I also recommend a book called What some of you were: Stories about Christians and homosexuality edited by Christopher Keane.
Andrew Rigg
Bring on the comments
Thursday, July 23 7:51 am
Ah… found you again!
I was wondering where you had disappeared to
Friday, July 24 3:40 am
Thought I’d share here some of the reply I made to one of the comments at bob.blog: http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/bobblog/2009/07/nt-wright-on-the-question-of-gay-clergy.html#comment-6a00d8341cd56753ef01157229a29b970b
Jon, in addition to the suggestions by Matt and others below, I believe that you might find Lewis B. Smedes’ book, “Sex for Christians: The Limits and Liberties of Sexual Living” (the revised edition), helpful.
Smedes is one of the most humble yet insightful writers of the 20th century. I have long regarded him as the American C.S. Lewis. His books show him to be a person who struggled to live honestly and transparently among humanity and the Trinity.
His revised edition, 20 years after the original publication, includes a final chapter called “Second Thoughts” where he addresses homosexuality at length. His insight is very helpful. And after addressing what he believes the Bible does not tell us about homosexuality, he offers a summary of what what he has personally come to think about it. This one statement is huge:
“I think that homosexuality is not the sexual orientation that God intended in creation. It is a genetic lapse. It is nature gone awry. There is tragedy in it. And homosexual people are called to live as morally within their tragedy as the rest of us are called to live within whatever tragedy may be ours.”
This kind of insight is, I believe, in line with the kind of thoughtful struggle Bob is calling us to enter.
Sunday, August 2 4:11 pm
Thanks Peggy.
Hi Hamo, still around.
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