Here’s the crux of what I’m getting at: we’ve got to realize that gay people are no different than anybody else. If straight people are coping with the loss of community, then so are gay people. If straight people are searching for love in a disintegrating social atmos...

As the hands and feet of Christ, we should have been engaging this topic and radically loving men and women with this story in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. In the ’80s, most Christians were anything but Jesus as we lived out of fear and let men die (of AIDS) by the side o...

"Next time you're near a time machine, I recommend traveling back to one of the earliest Christian churches—say, in 2nd-century Rome—and paying close attention to what you see and hear. You'll be struck, of course, by the diversity and the odd, sometimes troubling juxt...

"It means singleness, like marriage, has a unique way of testifying to the gospel of grace. Jesus said there will be no marriage in the new creation. In that respect we’ll be like the angels, neither marrying nor being given in marriage (Matt. 22:30). We will have the...