Word: christiane
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...homosexuality? It's impossible to get from Scripture anything straightforwardly positive about same-sex relationships. So if there were any other way of approaching it, you'd have to go back to the first principle of human relationships. Those theologians who've defended same-sex relationships from the Christian point of view in recent decades have said you've got to look at whether a same-sex relationship is capable of something at the level of neutral self-giving that a marriage ought to exemplify. And then ask, is that what Scripture is talking about? That's the area...
...taking up of a cross? Well, of course. And anybody who expects to go through a Christian life without a cross is deluding themselves...
Sources: New York Times (2); China Daily (2); Christian Science Monitor (2); New York Times...
...became less like high-end pop songs and more like math problems to be solved. They turned into the property of snobs and professors. They started to feel like homework. "It's thought of as a subject to be taught instead of simply an art to be enjoyed," says Christian Wiman, Poetry's editor...
...Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...