Authors

Original writings for The Epistle listed by the authors.


Bruce Gerig

Homosexuality and the Bible Series:

The Clobber Passages: Reexamined 
    Supplement: The Bible & Homosexuality flier (A one-page flier for hand-out)
Born Gay?

The Ex-Gay Illusion

A Very Hot Topic
    Supplement: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography

Sodom: A Traumatic Scene Revisited
Sodom: An Ancient Story Refashioned

The Levitical Ban: A Mysterious Puzzle
    Supplement: Uses of Zakhar/Zekhur ("Male") in the OT
The Levitical Ban: More Clues in the Case
The Levitical Ban: The Final Verdict

Divine Creation: In the Beginning
Divine Creation: After the Fall

Family Sexual Secrets in Genesis

Jonathan & David: An Introduction
Jonathan & David: Jonathan's Background
    Supplement: Homosexuality in Ancient Egypt
    Supplement: Homosexuality in the Ancient Near East, beyond Egypt

Jonathan & David: David's Background

    Supplement: Laying out a Time-Frame for Saul’s Reign

Jonathan & David: Their Meeting

    Supplement: David's Beauty and Jonathan's Love

Jonathan & David: Their Companionship

    Supplement: More On Saul's Sexual Insult and David's Losing It

Jonathan & David: Their Three Covenants

    Supplement: Jonathan's Gifts and Their Secrets

Jonathan & David: David's Lament

    Supplement: A Closer Look at David’s Lament, Part 1

    Supplement: A Closer Look at David’s Lament, Part 2
Jonathan & David: After Jonathan's Death

   Supplement: David and Jonathan and the Epic of Gilgamesh, Part 1

   Supplement: David and Jonathan and the Epic of Gilgamesh, Part 2

Jonathan & David: David's Women
_Supplement: Greek Homosexuality
Jonathan & David: The Debate Continues

Eunuchs: In the Old Testament

Jesus the Intersexual
Jesus and His Beloved Disciple, Part 1

Other Articles & Studies

Searching for Noah’s Ark
Mysteries of Christmas

     Supplement: Have Astronomers Found the Star of Bethlehem?

The Lord's Prayer
Genesis 1 - Science and the Bible

      Chapter 1: The Hebrew Text and the First Creation Account
      Chapter 2: The Evolutionary View and Genesis 1
      Chapter 3: Five Approaches to Reconciling Science and Genesis 1
      Footnotes, References and Translations

The Spirit & the Flesh Part 1: Fulfilling Christ's Law of Love
The Spirit & the Flesh Part 2: Finding a Christian Gay Ethic


Caroline Stacey

Calling Out the Church


Catherine Benskin

What's in a Wristband?
Lily, So Beautiful


Chad Gurley

Luck Became Superstitious
He Believes In You
Love SOC (Stream of Consciousness)

You’ll Just Have To Excuse Me
Peace Beat

Save Me From Myself
The Light Seen
and he talked to me

help Lord
Clouds

I feel good

The Stoning of Andrew
girlhood

Subway Script

Okay

umbrella

dream on God's shoulder
My Spiritual Abuse
Abandoned


Claude D. Ashby, Jr.

The Celebration


Clifford Rivera

Someone Left The Door Ajar
Atonement


D. Miess

What Is Truth
Resurrection From Rejection
I still believe


D. Seiple

Puzzlements at Cana
Pentecost: The Real Easter

Precarious Ambiguity

Baptismal Grace and Rampaging Santas


Edrick

What Does It Mean To Be A GLBT Christian?
Being Spiritual In A Non-spiritual World

I Don’t Like Myself Much
14 Responses to 14 Fundamentalist Christian Myths
Everyone’s A Critic
Where Do I Go From Here?
Praise the Lord!
Me, me, me
Am I Really Still Saved?
My Stuff
Really Trusting In God

Seeing With The Eyes of God
Finding Love
Spiritual Awakening
Passing Along Pain
Lack of Faith? Or Will of God?

A Letter To Christians Who Don't Like Us
Mercy, Not Sacrifice

Coming Back to God
Us vs. Them
Choices and Options
The Adulteress
Let Your Light Shine
It's All About People
Armchair Christians
Sin Obsession

Jesus and the "Immoral" Woman

Our Tape Recorder

High Anxiety

Judge not...

Pain & Healing
Sticks & Stones
The Christian Perfectionist

I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can!

Going Back To That Place

"True" Christians Are A Mess!

The Real Reason Straight Americans Can't Accept Gay Americans

The Most Spiritual Thing You Can Ever Do

Seeds of Thought

the eternal wanderer

I Strongly Agree

The Legalistic Mind
Seeing the Good in Everyone

It's Time

Granting Grace

Dark Christians

Why I Love Jesus

The Devil

Father, forgive them...
Afraid of God
Churcheology
Intellectualizing God
Everything Changes
Peer Pressure
Deeper Spirituality: A Closer Walk With God
The 3 Temptations of Jesus
Sin and the Commandments to Love
Ghosts that haunt us
Positively Negative
Finding God Through All the Hate


Erwin de Leon

We Are All God's Children
It is our Church too.


Gennee

Transgender and A Christian
God's Love for Transgender People

Reaching Out To Everybody
Does God Want To Display His Work In You?
A Light Shining Through Life's Rough Seas
A Transgender Woman's Prayer
WHOEVER


Gregg L. DesElms

Speech by wedding commissioner at the protest against Proposition 8 in Napa, CA


Gypsy Rose

A Healing Prayer


Halley Low

A Spiritual Exercise To Help Make The New Year A New Year
Memory
a Modern 23rd Psalm

Our Father

What Jesus Has Done For Me.

Reflection on Prayer
Along the Way
Looking into the Mirror with Augustine: A Reflection on his Confessions

An Open Commentary to the United Methodist Church and all Christians of Good Faith


Ian

Lessons of a former Homophobe


Jacob A. Taylor

I, Christian


Jim Cucinella

The God of Surprises
What You Have Taught Me In Prayer
Saturate Yourself With My Love
I Am Not Many

A Lullaby
Promised Land

Knock Down My Walls


Joe Fernicola

Sunset Surprise


Joey Heath

My Story


John Allen

Love Changes Things


John Beddingfield

Family Values
Bread of Life

Praying Naked

Looking and listening for the Good Shepherd

Dealing with Difference


John Montin

Integrity and Compassion
Supplication


Justin R. Cannon

Out of the Shadows


Kari Morris

Rocks
Beauty

The Prince and the Product

Goodbye To Her

God Sees Me

Heaven: A Letter to God


Karla McNeal

The Still Small Voice


Katharine Royal

Out of the Closet...and Into a Box?!


Kennan B.

The Bottom Line


Kevin-TheGuyOutsideTheWalls

Sex and God Together? - Let's Do it!
Less Is More
Learning to Fly


Larry L. Rice, Jr.

Elixir


Lori Heine

When They Want Us Are We Being Ministered to, or Marketed to?


Mario Gerada

The Joy of Being
Yeshua In Our Midst

Searching

A Macho's Embrace

Gay and Holy?

Shades of Light

A Bunch of Nice Words about Love?

I was wondering...

God, Bells, Pride and LGBT

Turbulence

House Sparrow
Whose Lives?
The Gay Body - Incarnating Christianity
Gays Who Pray?
Waiting for Him
Manasseh


Micah Royal

Confronting Bible Abuse
Confronting Bible Abuse, Part 2: Beginning Again with God

Confronting Bible Abuse, Part 3: Building a Support Network

Overcoming Bible Abuse, Part 4: Re-Discovering the Bible as a Book of Freedom

"What is a straight guy like you doing in affirming ministry?"
Lover's Lament


Noel Bordador

Christ in the Poor and Smelly Manger
The Wilderness
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

Kingdom Without Walls

The Glorious Wounds of Easter
The Parable of the Prodigal Father
The Politics of Forgiveness as the Politics of Christ

Something About Mary

Why Go to Church?

Life is what happens to you
God's Disciples: A Motley Crew

"I'll Be Home for Christmas..." Welcoming the Homeless God

Be On Your Guard...Stay Awake!

Jesus: The Kiss of the Lonely God and the Lonely Man

Jesus Christ: The True Mirror of Ourselves

"I've fallen and I can't get up"

Good Gifts Come In Small Packages

Thank God It's Friday

Jesus: A Rebel With A Cause

Dear Santa?

On Discernment: Two Pitfalls to Avoid
For Every Time There's A Season: Praying Through Life's Changes
God Comes in the Night: A Reflection for Christmas
Love Don't Need A Reason
A Place at the Table
The Love of the Poor: The Criteria For Our Final Judgment


Rick

Rick's Story


Ryan Bradshaw

We Do Not Need to Want


Shane K. Andersen

How Can You Not Believe?
The Six Most Important Words


Sloopy

Forgiveness: Putting the Ghosts to Rest


T.K. Herrin

“I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me", Philippians 4:13


Tim Wolfe

When the Spirit Prays


Zell Schwartzman

God you make my heart swing


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