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The inclusion of sodom and Gomorrah as evidence for this biblical position was disappointing, as this story is irrelevant to the discussion of homosexual marriage, as many recent scholars (even conservative ones) have argued.
Although I know that this cannot be the case, it reads like the author has not wrestled with these passages, and the difficult implications of them for the gay believer.
— Jun 12, 2026 09:42AM
Although I know that this cannot be the case, it reads like the author has not wrestled with these passages, and the difficult implications of them for the gay believer.
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Jared Matthews
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Chapter 1 has a brief defense of the “traditional” Christian position on homosexuality.
Despite aligning being someone who aligns with this position, I found his discussion and argumentation simplistic and lacking in nuance.
He relies on common evangelical formulations of this position, which are likely those he heard in his youth. This was disappointing written by someone who knows this as embodied theology.
— Jun 12, 2026 09:42AM
Despite aligning being someone who aligns with this position, I found his discussion and argumentation simplistic and lacking in nuance.
He relies on common evangelical formulations of this position, which are likely those he heard in his youth. This was disappointing written by someone who knows this as embodied theology.
Jared Matthews
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Hill does not seem to see “struggling” as a problem to be resolved. This pervades Hill’s reflections on coming out as gay in the church.
He does not seek to alleviate struggling, but rather he seeks to struggle well. This as crucial to why he does not seek to struggle much at all with what the Bible says on the issue.
Community, it seems, is his answer for how he can struggle well with his own homosexuality.
— Jun 09, 2026 01:48PM
He does not seek to alleviate struggling, but rather he seeks to struggle well. This as crucial to why he does not seek to struggle much at all with what the Bible says on the issue.
Community, it seems, is his answer for how he can struggle well with his own homosexuality.
Jared Matthews
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Hill’s mission in this book is to “put into words some of the confusion, sorrow, triumph, grief, and joy of the struggle to live faithfully before God, in Christ, with others, as a gay person.”
As he grew up in a conservative evangelical environment, and still has a foot in that corner, I’d be interested to see how his experience has changed from 2010 when this book was written.
— Jun 03, 2026 12:33PM
As he grew up in a conservative evangelical environment, and still has a foot in that corner, I’d be interested to see how his experience has changed from 2010 when this book was written.
