Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Homosexuality

WHAT’S THE SIN? WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT SEX, PART FOUR

What’s the Sin? Let’s talk about sin. Queer sin, to start with, although I will come around to straight sin before this piece is done. I want to talk about sin for two reasons. The first is that many people seem to assume that living queer is living in sin. This is often true even…

August 1, 2024
WHAT JEFFREY WEIMA GETS WRONG ABOUT THE FILM 1946: THE MISTRANSLATION THAT SHIFTED CULTURE

It’s not often that Calvin Seminary professors review movies, but recently Dr. Jeffrey Weima, Professor of New Testament at Calvin Theology Seminary, did just that. The movie is a 2022 documentary, 1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture, directed by Sharon Roggio. The film alleges that by mistranslating a brace of Greek words in 1 Corinthians 6:9, the…

June 8, 2024
TEXT AND TRAJECTORY: PART ONE OR HOW THE LITTLE PRINCE CLUES US TO READING THE BIBLE

I began this post with the intention of writing about text and trajectory on the basis of John 14. I’ll do so in the next post in this series. But as I got into it, I realized I need to clear some ground. Along the way I wrote and discarded material on the history of…

February 2, 2022
IS THE CHURCH’S STANCE ON HUMAN SEXUALITY A CONFESSIONAL MATTER PART 3: 1 CORINTHIANS 6

A The study committee appointed by Synod 2016 of the Christian Reformed Church “to articulate a foundation-laying biblical theology of human sexuality” was asked by the same synod whether in regard to what the church teaches about human sexuality (with same-sex marriage central to the discussion) the church should declare a status confessionis, ecclesiastical Latin…

December 17, 2021
DOES THE BIBLE HAVE A PLOT? A Second Take on a Theme

A bit of clarification is in order. In my previous series, “The Quest for “A Foundation-Laying Biblical Theology of Human Sexuality,” I took aim at a number of assumptions and methods that underlie the approach taken to questions of human sexuality by a synodical study committee in their looooong (175 pages) and controversial report, now…

August 6, 2021