Authors
Original writings for The Epistle listed by the authors.
Bruce Gerig
Homosexuality and the Bible Series:
The
Clobber Passages: Reexamined
Supplement: The Bible & Homosexuality flier (A one-page flier for hand-out)
Born Gay?
The Ex-Gay
Illusion
A
Very Hot Topic
Supplement: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
Sodom:
A Traumatic Scene Revisited
Sodom: An Ancient Story
Refashioned
The
Levitical Ban: A Mysterious Puzzle
Supplement:
Uses of Zakhar/Zekhur ("Male") in the OT
The Levitical Ban:
More Clues in the Case
The Levitical Ban:
The Final Verdict
Divine
Creation: In the Beginning
Divine Creation: After
the Fall
Family Sexual Secrets
in Genesis
Jonathan
& David: An Introduction
Jonathan
& David: Jonathan's Background
Supplement: Homosexuality in Ancient Egypt
Supplement:
Homosexuality in the Ancient Near East, beyond Egypt
Jonathan
& David: David's Background
Supplement: Laying out a Time-Frame for Saul’s Reign
Jonathan
& David: Their Meeting
Supplement: David's Beauty and Jonathan's Love
Jonathan
& David: Their Companionship
Supplement: More On Saul's Sexual Insult and David's Losing
It
Jonathan
& David: Their Three Covenants
Supplement: Jonathan's Gifts and Their Secrets
Jonathan
& David: David's Lament
Supplement: A Closer Look at David’s Lament, Part 1
Supplement: A Closer Look at David’s Lament, Part 2
Jonathan & David:
After Jonathan's Death
Supplement: David and Jonathan and the Epic of Gilgamesh, Part 1
Supplement: David and Jonathan and the Epic of Gilgamesh, Part 2
Jonathan
& David: David's Women
_Supplement:
Greek Homosexuality
Jonathan
& David: The Debate Continues
Supplement: Interpretative Issues in the Jonathan & David Debate
Supplement: Narrative Issues in the Debate
Eunuchs in the OT, Part 1, Introduction and Summary
Eunuchs in the OT, Part 2, Castration in Ancient Assyria, Babylonia and Persia
Eunuchs in the OT, Part 3, Hunting for Castrates in Israel before the Exile
Eunuchs in the OT, Part 4, Hunting for Jewish Castrates during the Exile
Jesus
the Intersexual
Jesus
and His Beloved Disciple, Part 1
Jesus
and His Beloved Disciple, Part 2
Jesus
and His Beloved Disciple, Part 3
Jesus
and His Beloved Disciple, Part 4
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10, Part 1
Table 1: Bible Translations and Commentary Views on Malakoi and Arsenokoitai in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Other Articles & Studies
Searching
for Noah’s Ark
Mysteries of Christmas
Supplement: Have Astronomers Found the Star of Bethlehem?
The
Lord's Prayer
Genesis
1 - Science and the Bible
Chapter 1: The Hebrew Text and the First Creation
Account
Chapter 2: The Evolutionary View and Genesis 1
Chapter 3: Five Approaches to Reconciling Science and Genesis 1
Footnotes, References and Translations
The
Spirit & the Flesh Part 1: Fulfilling Christ's Law of Love
The
Spirit & the Flesh Part 2: Finding a Christian Gay Ethic
The Revelation Given to John
Caroline Stacey
Catherine Benskin
What's
in a Wristband?
Lily,
So Beautiful
Chad Gurley
Luck
Became Superstitious
He
Believes In You
Love
SOC (Stream of Consciousness)
You’ll Just Have To
Excuse Me
Peace Beat
Save
Me From Myself
The Light Seen
and he talked to me
help
Lord
Clouds
I feel good
The Stoning
of Andrew
girlhood
Subway
Script
Okay
umbrella
dream
on God's shoulder
My
Spiritual Abuse
Abandoned
singing
birds
wrestles
i watch the walls
Claude D. Ashby, Jr.
Clifford Rivera
Someone
Left The Door Ajar
Atonement
D. Miess
What
Is Truth
Resurrection
From Rejection
I
still believe
D. Seiple
Puzzlements
at Cana
Pentecost:
The Real Easter
Precarious
Ambiguity
Baptismal
Grace and Rampaging Santas
Edrick
What
Does It Mean To Be A GLBT Christian?
Being Spiritual In A Non-spiritual
World
I
Don’t Like Myself Much
14
Responses to 14 Fundamentalist Christian Myths
Everyone’s
A Critic
Where
Do I Go From Here?
Praise
the Lord!
Me,
me, me
Am
I Really Still Saved?
My
Stuff
Really Trusting In God
Seeing
With The Eyes of God
Finding
Love
Spiritual
Awakening
Passing
Along Pain
Lack of Faith? Or Will
of God?
A Letter
To Christians Who Don't Like Us
Mercy, Not Sacrifice
Coming
Back to God
Us
vs. Them
Choices and
Options
The
Adulteress
Let Your Light
Shine
It's All About
People
Armchair
Christians
Sin
Obsession
Jesus
and the "Immoral" Woman
Our
Tape Recorder
High Anxiety
Judge not...
Pain
& Healing
Sticks
& Stones
The
Christian Perfectionist
I'm
Dancing As Fast As I Can!
Going
Back To That Place
"True"
Christians Are A Mess!
The
Real Reason Straight Americans Can't Accept Gay Americans
The
Most Spiritual Thing You Can Ever Do
Seeds
of Thought
the
eternal wanderer
I
Strongly Agree
The
Legalistic Mind
Seeing
the Good in Everyone
It's
Time
Granting
Grace
Dark
Christians
Why
I Love Jesus
The Devil
Father,
forgive them...
Afraid
of God
Churcheology
Intellectualizing
God
Everything
Changes
Peer
Pressure
Deeper
Spirituality: A Closer Walk With God
The
3 Temptations of Jesus
Sin
and the Commandments to Love
Ghosts
that haunt us
Positively
Negative
Finding
God Through All the Hate
The
Simple Gospel of Jesus Christ
Praying
for Others
When
Doves Attack!
A Servant of God
The Love of Money
Let Go and Let God
The Holy Spirit
In Praise of Women - A Gay Man's Perspective
Hero Worship - Our Need to Idolize
Loneliness is such a terrible thing
A Portrait of A Disciple of Jesus
Erwin de Leon
We
Are All God's Children
It is
our Church too.
Gennee
Transgender
and A Christian
God's
Love for Transgender People
Reaching
Out To Everybody
Does
God Want To Display His Work In You?
A
Light Shining Through Life's Rough Seas
A
Transgender Woman's Prayer
WHOEVER
Liberation
The Jordan Road
Second Autumn
Expectations
Gregg L. DesElms
Speech by wedding commissioner at the protest against Proposition 8 in Napa, CA
Gypsy Rose
Halley Low
A
Spiritual Exercise To Help Make The New Year A New Year
Memory
a
Modern 23rd Psalm
Our Father
What
Jesus Has Done For Me.
Reflection
on Prayer
Along
the Way
Looking
into the Mirror with Augustine: A Reflection on his Confessions
An
Open Commentary to the United Methodist Church and all Christians of Good
Faith
the
wounds that bind us
to be the image of God
a matter of heart
suicide is not painless
living outside the cocoon
Ian
Jacob A. Taylor
James M.
Jim Cucinella
The
God of Surprises
What
You Have Taught Me In Prayer
Saturate
Yourself With My Love
I
Am Not Many
A Lullaby
Promised
Land
Knock
Down My Walls
I Said A Prayer For You Today
Joe Fernicola
Joe Perri
Joey Heath
John Allen
John Beddingfield
Family
Values
Bread
of Life
Praying
Naked
Looking
and listening for the Good Shepherd
Dealing
with Difference
John Montin
Integrity
and Compassion
Supplication
Justin R. Cannon
Kari Morris
Rocks
Beauty
The
Prince and the Product
Goodbye
To Her
God
Sees Me
Heaven:
A Letter to God
"The Problem With Bein' A Preacher's Kid"
Karla McNeal
Katharine Royal
Out of the Closet...and Into a Box?!
Kennan B.
Kevin-TheGuyOutsideTheWalls
Sex
and God Together? - Let's Do it!
Less
Is More
Learning
to Fly
Larry L. Rice, Jr.
Lori Heine
When
They Want Us Are We Being Ministered to, or Marketed to?
A
Spontaneous Eruption of Family
Love
in the Shadows
Letting
Out Our Light
Droplets in the Ocean
Engaging Life
One "Yes" Leads to Another
"Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus"
Bread, Circuses, Christians and Lions
Superman's Splinter (Or Is It a Log?)
Are We Anybody?
Mario Gerada
The
Joy of Being
Yeshua
In Our Midst
Searching
A Macho's
Embrace
Gay
and Holy?
Shades
of Light
A
Bunch of Nice Words about Love?
I
was wondering...
God,
Bells, Pride and LGBT
Turbulence
House
Sparrow
Whose
Lives?
The
Gay Body - Incarnating Christianity
Gays
Who Pray?
Waiting
for Him
Manasseh
Troubled
Peace
A Place to Rest
Mary F. Grambsch
Micah Royal
Confronting
Bible Abuse
Confronting
Bible Abuse, Part 2: Beginning Again with God
Confronting
Bible Abuse, Part 3: Building a Support Network
Overcoming
Bible Abuse, Part 4: Re-Discovering the Bible as a Book of Freedom
"What
is a straight guy like you doing in affirming ministry?"
Lover's
Lament
Words and hands that kill
Noel Bordador
Christ
in the Poor and Smelly Manger
The
Wilderness
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Kingdom Without
Walls
The
Glorious Wounds of Easter
The
Parable of the Prodigal Father
The Politics
of Forgiveness as the Politics of Christ
Something
About Mary
Why
Go to Church?
Life
is what happens to you
God's
Disciples: A Motley Crew
"I'll
Be Home for Christmas..." Welcoming the Homeless God
Be
On Your Guard...Stay Awake!
Jesus:
The Kiss of the Lonely God and the Lonely Man
Jesus Christ:
The True Mirror of Ourselves
"I've
fallen and I can't get up"
Good Gifts
Come In Small Packages
Thank God It's
Friday
Jesus:
A Rebel With A Cause
Dear Santa?
On
Discernment: Two Pitfalls to Avoid
For
Every Time There's A Season: Praying Through Life's Changes
God
Comes in the Night: A Reflection for Christmas
Love
Don't Need A Reason
A
Place at the Table
The
Love of the Poor: The Criteria For Our Final Judgment
The
Good Thief - Ave, Crux, Spes Unica!(Hail, O Cross, Our Only Hope!)
The
Love of God Knows No Bounds: Our Adoption As God's Children
Humbling Ourselves Before God - Our Need for Forgiveness
Spiritual Spic 'n Span
Alleluia! Christ is Risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Jesus the Good Shepherd
Enter through the Narrow Gate
Welcome the "Little Children"
Olga Nikiforova
Rick
Ryan Bradshaw
We
Do Not Need to Want
For
Family
I CAN
Tug of War
Hide-and-Seek
Shane K. Andersen
How
Can You Not Believe?
The
Six Most Important Words
Sloopy
Forgiveness: Putting the Ghosts to Rest
T.K. Herrin
“I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me", Philippians 4:13
Tim Wolfe
Zell Schwartzman