Tim Otto's Blog, page 2
February 11, 2016
A Third Way is Possible – Interview with Ken Wilson
Tim: Ken, I read your book A Letter to My Congregation and appreciated so much the combination of the pastoral heart and the biblical scholarship and the carefully thought through theology. And you’ve also...
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June 29, 2015
On Not Being Self-Righteous about Not Being Self-Righteous
As a gay Christian I care about gay marriage and inclusion. But as story after story hits my media feeds, I feel a twinge of nausea and punch the scroll button. So many of them...
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January 14, 2015
Changing Our Mind
David Gushee’s Changing Our Mind, is a solid, short primer on how an evangelical can affirm same-sex relationships. In the first chapters he introduces the controversy in the church, various proposed solutions, and advocates steps...
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October 16, 2014
A Letter to My Congregation by Ken Wilson
I just counted the books on my selves about faith and homosexuality: I have 51. I also just finished reading Ken Wilson’s A Letter to My Congregation: An Evangelical Pastor’s Path to Embracing People Who...
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July 31, 2014
Review of Torn by Justin Lee
In the song “Take Your Mama” the Scissor Sisters urge their gay fans to ply mama with some cheap champagne and take her to a dance club to “show her what it’s all about.” If...
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July 21, 2014
Review of Crisis
I suspect that Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing up Gay in America is a book that few members of its target audience–religious conservatives–will read. Mitchell Gold, the editor, introduces the...
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February 14, 2014
The Book
Rather than embracing the conflict around homosexuality as an opportunity for the church to talk honestly about human sexuality, Christians continue to hurt one another with the same tired arguments, dividing along predictable political battle lines....
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