We can rightly look to God as husband and God as Father without making male sexuality divine. Last week, my students and I were looking at ways to interpret difficult texts in Paul in class when a ...

A wedding venue in North Carolina rejected a male couple’s request to hold their marriage celebration dinner there in 2022. McCae Henderson and Ike Edwards contacted Highgrove Estate, which prides ...

Like a festering sore that doesn’t heal, conservative politicians pick at the moral legitimacy of same-sex marriage. Citizens within Christian communities read the same Bible. They appeal to the same ...

I first met Mark Achtemeier in one of the committee rooms at a Presby­terian Church (U.S.A.) General As­sembly in the mid-1990s. We were on opposite sides of a perennial issue for Presbyterians: ...

For many, marriage is a major milestone in their faith. Most people begin dreaming about getting married, but not everyone's idea of what the perfect marriage will be like is the same. Some women want ...

Divorce and remarriage remain some of the most challenging and sensitive topics within the Church today. While modern culture has become increasingly permissive regarding the dissolution of marriage, ...

I once forced ministry leaders to take a theological stand on a personal issue of modern times. The debates that followed were interesting. Option 1 – Living together before marriage is wrong. No ...

Views about same-sex marriage among adults who say their holy scripture is the word of God but should not be taken literally by religious group % of adults who say their holy scripture is the word of ...

Interpreting scripture among adults who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage by religious group % of adults who oppose or strongly oppose gay marriage who say the holy scripture is… ...