Authors
Original writings for The Epistle listed by the authors.
Authors: Bruce Gerig, Caroline Stacey, Catherine Benskin, Chad Gurley, Claude D. Ashby, Jr., Clifford Rivera, David W.T. Brattston, Dipo Olatade, D. Miess, D. Seiple, Edrick, Emanuele Macca, Erika Meyers, Erwin de Leon, Gennee, George Nochta, Gregg L. DesElms, Gypsy Rose, Halley Low, Ian, Jacob A. Taylor, James M., Jim Cucinella, Joe Fernicola, Joe Perri, Joey Heath, John Allen, John Beddingfield, John Montin, Joshua Wong, Justin R. Cannon, Justin Parks, Kari Morris, Karla McNeal, Katharine Royal, Kennan B., Kevin-TheGuyOutsideTheWalls, Larry L. Rice Jr., Lori Heine, Mario Gerada, Mary F. Grambsch, Micah Royal, Michael Piazza, Noel Bordador, Olga Nikiforova, Rick, Rick Wilson, Ryan Bradshaw, Shane K. Andersen, Sloopy, Susan E.Gilmore, T.K. Herrin, Tim Wolfe, Zell Schwartzman
Homosexuality and the Bible Series:
The
Clobber Passages: Reexamined
Supplement: The Bible & Homosexuality flier (A one-page flier for hand-out)
Biological Determinants and Homosexuality
Born Gay?
The Ex-Gay
Illusion
A
Very Hot Topic
Supplement: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography
Biblical Inspiration and Authority
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
Supplement: Interpretative Issues in the Jonathan & David Debate
Supplement: Narrative Issues in the Debate
"Jonathan and David, A Love Story"
Eunuchs in the OT, Part 1, Introduction and Summary
Eunuchs in the OT, Part 2, Castration in Ancient Assyria, Babylonia and Persia
Eunuchs in the OT, Part 3, Hunting for Castrates in Israel before the Exile
Eunuchs in the OT, Part 4, Hunting for Jewish Castrates during the Exile
Jesus
the Intersexual
Jesus
and His Beloved Disciple, Part 1
Jesus
and His Beloved Disciple, Part 2
Jesus
and His Beloved Disciple, Part 3
Jesus
and His Beloved Disciple, Part 4
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10
_Table 1: Bible Translations and Commentary Views on Malakoi and Arsenokoitai in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Introduction to Paul's Letter to the Romans
_Supplement: Roman Sexuality in Paul's World
An Analysis of Romans 1:18-32, Part 1 - An Exchange of the Creator God for Worthless Idols
An Analysis of Romans 1:18-32, Part 2 - A Giving over to Lustful, Dishonoring, and 'Unnatural' Sexual Behavior
An Analysis of Romans 1:18-32, Part 3 - Closing Issues in Romans 1:18-32
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
The Revelation Given to John
Is the Shroud of Turin Really Christ's Burial Cloth?
What's
in a Wristband?
Lily,
So Beautiful
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
singing
birds
wrestles
i watch the walls
alright
live 1
Couple's Counseling
Birds of a Feather
The "Straight" Voice
life preserver
what is going on?
"Why Go and Do Likewise"
i can't wait for the day
invitation to smile
Jesus Prays
met my breath
TV
Love God
Pain is Raw
Judged
A Coronavirus Poem
strange
Shimmer
"If Your Church..." - Quote by Chad Gurley
Naked
Awake
I Always Thought
Humanity's Ultimate Question
Moved
Sing
My Dears
As you read this
There is a Cricket
footstep back
Someone
Left The Door Ajar
Atonement
NOT SINGLED OUT
Vital Differences
GOD HAS CALLED AND CHOSEN YOU
Won by Love
Let Us Love One Another
What
Is Truth
Resurrection
From Rejection
I
still believe
Puzzlements
at Cana
Pentecost:
The Real Easter
Precarious
Ambiguity
Baptismal
Grace and Rampaging Santas
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
The
Simple Gospel of Jesus Christ
Praying
for Others
When
Doves Attack!
A Servant of God
The Love of Money
Let Go and Let God
The Holy Spirit
In Praise of Women - A Gay Man's Perspective
Hero Worship - Our Need to Idolize
Loneliness is such a terrible thing
A Portrait of A Disciple of Jesus
God's Ways Are Not Our Ways
What We Have Left Undone
Our Modern World - how much we have truly strayed
The Pain of Loss
Putting God First- A Call for a Revived Heart
Complain, complain, complain- (the opposite of thanksgiving)
Living Faith
The Body of Christ
Damaged Fruit
The Inside of the Cup
The Power of Fear
Christians Who Still Don't Get What Jesus Is All About
What If Jesus Was Here Today?
You are exactly where God wants you to be...for now.
Stuck in the Past
The Self-Centered Christian
Skulls are "IN" this year
Going on a Spiritual Diet
Why Would A Loving God Send Anyone to Hell?
Heaven Is Where God Is - Part 2 of "Why Would A Loving God Send Anyone to Hell?"
God's Toughest Lessons
Prayer in our walk with God
The Lukewarm Christian
Why Leaving The Church Might Be The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Spiritual Life
Why Me?
The New Atheists and the Excuse That Science Kills God
Modern Pharisees
Why I Give To Homeless People
God's Watching Eyes
The Day I Had to Apologize to a Stranger
I Believed Them
We Are Because of God
Our Freedom To Choose
Not Everyone Who Says to Me,'Lord, Lord'...
Difficult People in Our Lives
The Peace That Passes All Understanding
The Pain of a Broken Heart
The Significance of Footwashing
Love Deficit
Empathy & Compassion
Feelings & Emotions
Reading the Bible Spiritually
Warming the Pews
A Memory of My Mother
A Boy and His Father
Why did God put the Tree in the Garden if He knew we would fail?
Things Christians Do That Are Fundamentally Against Jesus' Teachings
What A Slum Village Taught Me About Real Community
The Metaphor of the "House"
Distracted Christians
A Time of Great Uncertainty
Social Distancing...from God
A Call For Repentance
Does It Really Matter?
A People Divided
Life's a bitch and then you die
Time for a Reset
Pulling Weeds
You Don't Have to Forgive
Sodom and the K Word
Examining Our Hearts to Purify Our Souls
Jesus' Forgiveness
Our Unwillingness to Change
The Embrace of Three Mothers Who Warmed My Faith
"Everything Broken Gets Fixed"- Erika Meyer
We
Are All God's Children
It is
our Church too.
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
Liberation
The Jordan Road
Second Autumn
Expectations
Speech by wedding commissioner at the protest against Proposition 8 in Napa, CA
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
the
wounds that bind us
to be the image of God
a matter of heart
suicide is not painless
living outside the cocoon
on Divine gifts & human rights
expectations, not so great
the moment matters
the church has no volunteers - oh my
Lord God
The
God of Surprises
What
You Have Taught Me In Prayer
Saturate
Yourself With My Love
A Lullaby
Knock
Down My Walls
Fragile
Hope was born in Bethlehem
God is Love
Seeker of Truth
Love Is
Angels
God Knows
When Easter Comes
Single
Sunset
Surprise
Oh Lord Jesus
Mother- A Life Anew
Family
Values
Bread
of Life
Praying
Naked
Looking
and listening for the Good Shepherd
Dealing
with Difference
Integrity
and Compassion
Supplication
Forgiveness
Uneasy Peace
Who Am I
Clouds
Dual Death
Grace, a Gift from God
Love Your Enemies...Why?
Rocks
Beauty
The
Prince and the Product
Goodbye
To Her
God
Sees Me
Heaven:
A Letter to God
"The Problem With Bein' A Preacher's Kid"
Out of the Closet...and Into a Box?!
Sex
and God Together? - Let's Do it!
Less
Is More
Learning
to Fly
When
They Want Us Are We Being Ministered to, or Marketed to?
A
Spontaneous Eruption of Family
Love
in the Shadows
Letting
Out Our Light
Droplets in the Ocean
Engaging Life
One "Yes" Leads to Another
"Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus"
Bread, Circuses, Christians and Lions
Superman's Splinter (Or Is It a Log?)
Are We Anybody?
Danger - and Opportunity
Opening the Door
What Comes Naturally
The Gospel According to Marge Gunderson
Our Chance to Say Thanks
Lift Every Voice
And Now, After the Holidays - the Real Saint Nick
Mrs. Quakenbush's Kumquats
What's My Line?
Evil Invaders from Outer Space
Through the Car-Wash With God
Keeping in Touch
Making Lemonade Out of Love
Entertaining Angels Unawares
God in Not in the Fire
Touching Lepers
The Pharisee's Worst Nightmare
Held High
Setting the Spirit Free
The Pause That Refreshes
Things That Make Us Go "Duh"
The Way We Are
The Priority-Driven Life
A Mystery Inscrutable
The Wayward Wind
Bad Religion
Collateral Damage
"Good" and "Happy" Shake Hands
Starshine
The Highway
Everything I Looked At
Tio Leo's Livery Service - A Short Story
Heresy is a Cruel Mistress
All Souls-Without Exception
The Treadmill of Good Intentions
From Wanderers to Warriors
Thy Rod and Thy Staff
Whistling in the Dark
Like the Angels
A Particular God
Keeping the Season
Gaslight
Picture of a Black Hole
Eye to Eye
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
Troubled
Peace
A Place to Rest
Grounding
Ripples of My Christ
Rhythms of Understanding
Unveiled Being
Madness Without Him
The Wondering Soul
Fleeting Freedom
Exposed Soul
Confessions
Journey of Bliss
Prayer to God
From My Room
Out of the Closet-Gay Catholics
Vision in a Dream
One Bird's Song
The Land always Remembers
Gajara
Imago
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
Words and hands that kill
I'm a Groomer
Acting Like Jesus
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
The
Good Thief - Ave, Crux, Spes Unica!(Hail, O Cross, Our Only Hope!)
The
Love of God Knows No Bounds: Our Adoption As God's Children
Humbling Ourselves Before God - Our Need for Forgiveness
Spiritual Spic 'n Span
Alleluia! Christ is Risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Jesus the Good Shepherd
Enter through the Narrow Gate
Welcome the "Little Children"
Chop Wood and Carry Water
The Metaphor of the Journey
To Be In the World But Not of the World
Our Friendship with God
The Coming of God
Waters of Life
Following Christ's Suffering Service
"My Vocation is Love"- A Reflection of the the Life of Therese of Lisieux
Who Is My Neighbor?
Swimming in God's Love
Sustaining Our Prayer Life - A Study Guide
God's Loving Embrace
Rising To New Life
Just Being You
You Are Welcome
Faith and Action: The Great Disconnect
An Authentic Life Without Regret
Discovering Your True Self
Love in Community
God Embraces Us
The Compassionate Heart
Transfiguration
Our Possessions that Possess Us
God Is Near
The Crooked Path to God
God Sees the Heart
Being A Good Neighbor
Our Beautiful Brokenness
Clearer Vision
Pruning Our Hearts
A New Life, A New Self
Love and Love Again
The Unexamined Life
Remove Your Sandals
No Outcasts
The Loneliness of Saints
Feeding the Multitudes
Come and See
Jesus in the Subway
How A Child Saved My Life
The Temptations of Life
Saints
Humility
Two Prayers
His Sacrament of Love
Christ's Love: A Harsh and Dreadful Love
Love for the Despised
Mercy & Compassion
Saved from Drowning
Wounds of Joy
Say "Yes!" to God
Easter & the Coronavirus
On Keeping Faith In Dark Times...
The Poverty of Loneliness and the Christian Antidote of Community
Our Dark Shadows
Emptying Ourselves
The Power of Words
A Home for the Homeless
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
The Blessing is Next to the Wound
Our Home in God
Hearing Jesus' Voice
La Buena Hora (The Good Hour)
God Calls Us
The Love of Money
Jesus Heals the Crippled Woman
We
Do Not Need to Want
For
Family
I CAN
Tug of War
Hide-and-Seek
Walking with Pride
Right and Good
Catalpa Tree
How
Can You Not Believe?
The
Six Most Important Words
Forgiveness: Putting the Ghosts to Rest
The Final Piece That Brought Peace
“I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me", Philippians 4:13
Zell Schwartzman