This week is a busy one in our small town - it's the Tour of the Gila bicycle race. I'll have more to say after today when everything is finished and the cyclists all leave town...but it's been fun and intense energy here this week. We volunteered to host a cyclist, so we have a woman from Denver staying with us. She's in the Women's Pro 1 category - which is the highest. It's been a treat to learn from her about the race from the inside.
More later...
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Hey, what do you know about Soul Force?
I don't know a lot, and nothing firsthand. http://www.soulforce.org/
I've heard tidbits, and I'd like to know more. That sort of social justice fiestiness is specifically what I'm passionate about, and part of the reason I want to go to seminary at Chicago Theological Seminary. Why do you ask?
Well, they visited cornerston and Calvin college here. There was more of a ruckus at CStone.
They are a group for equal rights, some are christian some are not. I think they really just want to be respected.
Anyway, they went to CStone protesting the rules Cstone has about homosexuality. They couldnt go on campus or the police would be called. Some of it was because they, Soulforce, wanted to cause a sene. They called the police on themselves and told to use handcuffs if neccesary. Im conflicted on both ends,
I really wish Cstone would have accepted them in and actually got to know where these people from this group is at. Some came out to give them food and yet some in fact were areested, they decided to show up at chapel.
In the other end I am frustrated the people of soul force just expect this treatment, I do believe some was for show but also believe a part of this group has been hurt in the past, its a bitterness against everyone. And that also is sticky.
With this said, thats why I asked. Just for your take, I checked out their website and I believe all this group wants is equal rights. I do have a friend who is gay, goes to our college (Kuyper) and I want nothing but the best for him, I simply do not know enough about the issue yet to say one way or another.
Thoughts? I know this is long!
Not that this has anything to do with the actual blog post, but we can continue for a bit. :)
Is your friend at Kuyper out as a homosexual person? I'd be impressed at his courage. I doubt it's easy to be gay and out in the Christian community of Grand Rapids. I sometimes find it difficult to be an out ally when I'm there.
I can recommend a few books that address Christianity & homosexuality, if you're interested (or your friend). The first one is a quick read and targets a broad audience: The Children Are Free: Reexamining the Biblical Evidence on Same-sex Relationships by Rev. Jeff Miner and John Tyler Connoley. John Tyler is one of my dearest friends (see Tyler's Turn & Tyler's Turn blogs) and Jeff Miner was his pastor in Indiana. This book does exactly what the title indicates, and it's refreshing to read that it's easier to reconcile homosexuality & Christianity than previously thought. In fact, this book presents a case that perhaps it's more consistent with Christ's teachings to welcome homosexuals and raise them up as equals in the Christian family (and as citizens with equal civil rights, although this book is more religious than political) than it is to teach that being gay is a sin to somehow avoid.
Also, I read What God Has Joined Together? A Christian Case for Gay Marriage by David G. Myers and Letha Dawson Scanzoni. This book is specifically about marriage, obviously, but reexamines scriptural evidence about homosexuality as well.
The first book is written by two gay Christian men, the second by two heterosexual Christians (one of whom is on the faculty at Hope College in Holland MI). I'd encourage you to read and hold the Bible and your beliefs up to these claims, and see where the Spirit of Truth takes you.
Oh, he is deff out and has no doubt about his faith in God, his sexuality and as it is hard for this person, he is not silent in the least.
Thank you for the reading, I will look into it, prolly later rather than sooner tho, I am busy right now.
The thing I most have trouble is there are references to homosexuality, but The Bible is also full of Grace, God. Some say it is the sin nature we are in, which in this way I can justify the thought of the "homosexuality gene" but also, there is the arguement that this is not natural. For a class we have had to read a book about how we mis interpret the bible.
Like I said, I am in a quandry but I know I am called to Love at all costs.
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