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Christianity & Homosexuality: CONTINUED

By David W. Shelton | September 24, 2006 | Print This Post

 
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A few weeks ago, I began a series on my blog and right here at Clarksville Online on Christianity & Homosexuality. There are a total of six passages in the Bible that are used as “clobber” verses for the GLBT community, and the series deals with each of them individually.

So many of us who either know gay or lesbian people, or who are gay, know the kind of religious verbal violence that is hurled at an alarming rate. This series is an effort to take a step back from our pet theologies and look at their literary, historical, and original language contexts.And that’s just the beginning!

This is a special 8-part series that is the basis of my new book (Coming Soon!), “The Rainbow Kingdom: Christianity & the Homosexual Reconciled.” At Christian Community Church of Clarksville, we’ve explored these themes in great detail. The time has come to put it into writing. The book, of course, will carry these into even greater detail that on my blog.

With the permission of Clarksville Online owner Bill Larson, I’ve decided to refer all readers of this series directly to my blog, Skipping to the Piccolo. My regular commentaries will return to their focus on Clarksville life and politics, which will be much more appropriate for this forum. My hope and prayer is that we can begin to overcome years of bad information and abusive theology so that we can walk together as Christians… ALL Christians.

As challenging as the idea may be for some of us, I provide this information as a service to the community; an opportunity for some of us to take a closer look at long-held biases and maybe look at our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender neighbors with an eye for love rather than judgement or condemnation.

Here are the links: Skipping to the Piccolo

NOW ONLINE:

COMING SOON:

  • Part 7: Other Biblical stories of note
  • Part 8: How then shall we live?

So won’t you join me? You can easily subscribe to the blog on the page to be notified when the new posts are added over the next few days.

See you there!

About David W. Shelton

    Posts by David W. Shelton are copyright (c)2006, 2007, 2008 by the author. All rights reserved. David W. Shelton is a writer, speaker and activist in Clarksville, and serves on the Clarksville Human Relations Commission. His passions include film and complete equality for all people, and he has worked in various capacities to work toward this goal. He is currently an illustrator, graphic designer, trainer, and is the owner of Imagine Media Solutions. He is an Adobe® Certified Instructor in Photoshop®.

    Web Site: http://www.skippingtothepiccolo.com/

    Email: dwshelton@charter.net

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