Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Queer sex

  • SPIRITUAL ADULTHOOD

    I should have called a recent blog piece, “The Way of Doubt.” Instead, I called it, “The Quest for a Moral Center, Part 1”— a title simultaneously drab and misleading. The piece was not about finding a moral center but about doubt: how doubt often leads in the direction of renewed faith. Doubt, I suggested,…

  • 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…

  • NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS FOR SYNOD 2024: GRAVAMEN

    Synod 2024 of the Christian Reformed Church begins meeting in person on June 14. Until then and while synod is in session, I hope to offer a few notes and observations about the synodical process. This synod could mark the beginning of the end for the CRC or, perhaps, the beginning of something new. I…