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The Questions of Gay Marriage: Covenant or Biology in Genesis 2?
I began a series almost a year ago of looking at the arguments around gay marriage. I took a long hiatus from that, due to finishing my master’s degree and moving my life across an ocean. However, I return to...
The Questions of Gay Marriage: How serious a concern is homosexuality?
This is the third part of an ongoing series I started a few months back. You can read the second part here. I am proceeding more slowly than I should, but I am wanting to give myself the space to...
The Questions of Gay Marriage: The Authority of Scripture
This is the second part of an ongoing series I started a few months back. I am proceeding more slowly than I should, but I am wanting to give myself the space to allow the subject to marinate and to...
The Questions of Gay Marriage: An Inquiring Essay, Part One
What should we make of marriage? Or should we perhaps frame the question differently? Should we instead take up what marriage makes of us, and so consider ourselves as fundamentally responsive to it rather than creative? Why does a particular form of...
Hope, Failures, and Young Evangelicals: On What I Said and Didn’t
My piece last week generated plenty of conversation, which is always gratifying. Over the past decade, writing here at Mere Orthodoxy has allowed me to work through a number of questions with others who have very different perspectives than I...
Naive Young Evangelicals and the Illiberal DNA of the Gay Rights Movement
Now that our “insane national freak-out” about Indiana’s religious liberty bill has subsided a little, it’s worth stepping back to reflect on what happened and what the drama might mean for religious conservatives. Ross Douthat said nearly everything that needs...