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Sex, Singleness, Dating – and Bad Theology

By Naomi Wilson ll the single ladies! All the single ladies! Put your hands up!” So goes Beyonce’s smash hit of 2010, and so goes a significant portion of my life (by choice and by default, at times). In Christian culture...

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You Need Only Listen

You Need Only Listen By James Farlow Like most Christians, we are never far from the culture wars. We try to carve out a space for ourselves where a more peaceful, loving dialogue can prevail in the midst of vitriol and miscomm...

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If You Were Gay, That’d Be Ok

By Matthew Schuler It Gets Better wo weeks ago in Las Vegas, Lady Gaga suddenly stopped the iHeartRadio music festival mid-fist-pump in order to dedicate her next song to a young, dead, homosexual. Twenty thousand fans stood ...

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Reflections of a Father

Reflections of a Father Sherwood Lingenfelter On Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2001, beginning my third year at Fuller, my firstborn and only daughter, Jennifer Lingenfelter, declared to her mother and me that she was in love with a woma...

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Reflections of a Gay Christian

Reflections of a Gay Christian Jennifer Lingenfelter My spiritual journey begins with my grandfather. He was a pastor for 50 years and a spiritual giant to all of us as grandchildren. He took us to Bible camp in the summers, ba...

by Jennifer Lingenfelter

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No Longer Lesbian

No Longer Lesbian Maria Cardenas Baez I was born to be a lesbian. Early in life, there was never a question about changing my sexual orientation and the attraction I had for the same sex led me into two significant, long-lastin...

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Yarhouse Talks Sex

As part of the ongoing dialogue of the Fuller Community in understanding sexuality and ministry, Dr. Mark Yarhouse of Regent Univ. will be addressing the campus on Oct. 17 from 5 – 6:30pm in Travis Auditorium. Dr. Yarhouse is...

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A Look Backward in Hopes of Seeing Forward: Homosexuality and the History of Psychiatry

A Look Backward in Hopes of Seeing Forward: Homosexuality and the History of Psychiatry By Chris Keiper bout five years ago, when I was studying to be a mechanical engineer in college, I received an email from the pastor of a c...

by Chris Keiper

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