A War of Loves: The Unexpected Story of a Gay Activist Discovering Jesus

I listen to my same-sex desires as part of my more fundamental craving for intimacy with God and others, and I also deny them in deference to desiring God’s image, will, and person.

Same-sex erotic desires are part of our fallen humanity.

Adam needs Eve, and Eve needs Adam, in order to image God. They cannot socially or biologically work without each other. They are incomplete without God and without each other.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”

marriage is framed by God in the Scriptures as solely between a man and a woman. Claiming it can be anything else is to argue from scriptural silence.

As a gay celibate Christian, I recognize that Christ is my ultimate identity; gay and celibate come second. My identity is first and foremost in Christ, but those other two descriptors tell the redemptive story of God’s grace in my life.

as the author of Genesis writes and then Jesus reiterates, God created us as male and female so we would reflect his image together.

The God revealed in Jesus Christ is the definition of love.

“Love is love” doesn’t mean that much semantically, and it provides no definition of what love actually is.