“Seeing the Person”: More on Pastoral Care of Same-Sex Couples
A few weeks ago a friend of mine posted a beautiful video on Facebook about a couple that have been married for 50 years. The wife has Alzheimer’s Disease, so the husband also needs to be her permanent...
View ArticleThe New Ex-Gay
While observing the conversation about faith and sexuality over the past few years I have witnessed a depressing number of harmful and untrue words come out of someone’s mouth right after the preface,...
View ArticleSexual Orientation Discrimination on Campus?
Update October 7, 2016: This post was written in 2014 to address a controversy then facing InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. It has become relevant again in light of a new controversy regarding their...
View ArticleMore On Coming Out Part 2: How Open Should You Be?
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m often asked by other sexual minority Christians how open they should be about their sexuality. There is no single answer for everyone, so I would like to offer some...
View ArticleLabel Makers
Well, here we are, talking about labels and identity. Again. [throws taupe confetti in the air] Among those who think people shouldn’t describe themselves as ‘gay’, the most common objection is that it...
View ArticleWorld Meeting of Families Transcript
This is a transcript of my presentation with my mother, Beverley Belgau, at the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, in conjunction with Pope Francis’s first pastoral visit to the United States....
View ArticleThe Benedict Option and the Nashville Statement
From time to time, I have debated with Justin Lee, the gay-affirming founder of the Gay Christian Network. Like me, Justin grew up Southern Baptist. Sometimes, someone will ask me why I think Justin...
View ArticleWhere the World Attacks
In the mornings lately I’ve been reading through the book of Exodus with the help of Fr. Thomas Joseph White’s commentary, and today I came to his discussion of the Sixth Commandment. In the course of...
View ArticleWhere Else Could We Go? Reflections on #Revoice18
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” – John 6:68 As other...
View ArticleOn Proper Pride
In a quickly-deleted tweet last June, a prominent Catholic priest responded to our nation’s annual season of LGBTQ celebrations by asking: “If we’re celebrating Pride this month, what sin are we...
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