Passing the Love of Women

I picked up Anthony Heacock's Jonathan Loved David: Manly Love in the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Sex (Sheffield Phoenix, 2011) at the library to see what current scholarship was saying about the subject. What I learned was that the nature of the relationship between Jonathan, the son of King Saul, and David, Saul's successor to the throne, is ambiguous and will probably never be settled for

Passing the Love of Women

I picked up Anthony Heacock's Jonathan Loved David: Manly Love in the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Sex (Sheffield Phoenix, 2011) at the library to see what current scholarship was saying about the subject. What I learned was that the nature of the relationship between Jonathan, the son of King Saul, and David, Saul's successor to the throne, is ambiguous and will probably never be settled for

The God That Dare Not Speak His Name

It's time for another of my book reviews for Gay Community News, published December 1, 1984. This one is still as relevant as it was twenty-three years ago. (In My Hubristic Opinion, of course.) Scroggs's book is still in print, and is still cited in writings on homosexuality and Christianity. There's still no good book on the subject, though the second edition of Daniel Helminiak's What the

The God That Dare Not Speak His Name

It's time for another of my book reviews for Gay Community News, published December 1, 1984. This one is still as relevant as it was twenty-three years ago. (In My Hubristic Opinion, of course.) Scroggs's book is still in print, and is still cited in writings on homosexuality and Christianity. There's still no good book on the subject, though the second edition of Daniel Helminiak's What the

Gay Christians Say the Darnedest Things!

I suppose my all-time favorite is the student who stood up in the audience during a dormitory forum on gays and Christianity, identified himself as a gay Christian who knew his Scriptures very well, and proceeded to denounce the "Saint James Version" of the Bible, much to the amusement of the fundamentalist students present. (It wasn't only the name of the translation that he got wrong.) But as a

Gay Christians Say the Darnedest Things!

I suppose my all-time favorite is the student who stood up in the audience during a dormitory forum on gays and Christianity, identified himself as a gay Christian who knew his Scriptures very well, and proceeded to denounce the "Saint James Version" of the Bible, much to the amusement of the fundamentalist students present. (It wasn't only the name of the translation that he got wrong.) But as a