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This may come as a shock, but our conversation about homosexuality is not actually about sex.       I know sex is part of homosexuality.  ...

This essay is part of the Renovating Holiness Project .  Janel Apps Ramsey is a staff member at Bloom Church Denver.  She graduated from N...

This essay is part of the Renovating Holiness Project .  Musung Jung is Assistant Professor in the Department of Christian Studies at Korea...

Photo Credit: See-Ming Lee      The conversation about homosexuality is not about equality.  Not just about equality.  Not simply that....

    I set down the phone, dropped my face in my hands and slowly let the tears fall.  As my husband sat nearby, holding our baby boy, he w...

Photo Credit: David Campbell      "The Bible says homosexuality is wrong" - that's the starting point for many conservat...

Editor's Note: This essay is part of the Renovating Holiness project.   Ank Verhoeven is a pastor in the Netherlands, and this essay re...

“Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!” (Genesis 19:5). www.freeb...

The Renovating Holiness project is well underway.  Gen-X and Millennial Nazarenes from around the world are revisioning sanctification for...

     Tim Crutcher is a theology professor at Southern Nazarene University.  This is his contribution to the Renovating Holiness Project . ...

When Christians start talking about homosexuality, most LBGT people feel that their personal identity is under attack. Photo Credit: Axe...

     Are people born this way?  Or are they shaped this way by experience? Photo Credit: McBeth People often think the "nature...

Christian Sarmiento, South America Regional Director for the Church of the Nazarene, is a few years too old for the Renovating Holiness pro...

   The stereotype is that gay men are extremely promiscuous.  This aura of promiscuity plays into many Christian conversations about homose...

Photo Credit: Umayyr The conversation that the church is having is not about homosexuality as an orientation.        In a statement o...

One of the most common responses to this series so far is: “Why do we even need to talk about this?”   My conservative brothers and sisters...

Photo by Burstein! Obviously, homosexuality is one of the hottest and most controversial topics of our time. We have experienced ...

A poem in response to the painting, “Wagon Wheel” by Michele Wood in the I Lay My Stitches Down series on display in the Covenant Fine Ar...

Photo by Epsos.de Does the bud hurt when it cracks? When Life bulges out of its conical chocolate shell In mint green then red or...

Photo by:  baejaar Last week, I blogged about how World Vision shifted the center on the gay marriage debate , and naturally lots of pe...

World Vision is blowing up the internet via gay marriage.  What's going on? THE FACTS: Just in case you've been living under ...

   by  woodleywonderworks    OK, so I'm a day late, but I got the idea on a Thursday.      Last night, Amy and Joe Jamrock invite...

Photo by morganlevy We now have more than 130 confirmed contributors to the  Renovating Holiness Project .  Having inherited our gran...

This is the first full essay submitted to the Renovating Holiness Project. Grant Zweigle pastored in Kansas City, MO; Seattle, WA; a...