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Come on, my fellow white folks, we have something to confess. No, nothing to do with age spots or those indoor-tanning creams we use to get us through the | winter without looking like the final stages of TB. Nor am I talking about the fact that we all go home and practice funky dance moves behind drawn shades. Out with it, friends, the biggest secret known to whites since the invention of powdered rouge: welfare is a white program. Yep. At least it's no more black than Vanilla Ice is a fair rendition of classic urban...
...clocks in the plazas ring out on these May days, and the three of us confess how fascinated we are by clocks. We admire them, collect them, and feel thus that we own time, or at least the mystery of time, which is to imagine it running backward or speeding us to our meeting with the future, until we reject that idea and define all time as the present: the past that we not only remember but that we imagine, as much as we imagine the future, so that both will have meaning...
...impressed, to be sure, by the conclusions which Gomes draws on the particular subject of homosexuality, but I am excited more by the broad program for Christian ethics which he seems to describe. I confess that before I had read Gomes's essay, at the same time so marvelously urbane and yet so devoutly pious, I should scarcely have believed that the freedom of the Christian was so compendiously broad...
Quite apart from my naive affection for Aristotelian ethics (shared with such other insufficiently Protestant men as Melanchton and Beza), I confess that in my former confusion, I had been somewhat struck by the theological ethics of Calvin and his successors; in that darkened state, I had been impressed more than I ought by more recent Protestant efforts to ground sexual ethics in the fact of the divine creation of the human race as male and female...
...confess such realities and actively seek loving reformation and compassionate aid from sisters and brothers in the Christian community and outside it. I have been compassionately ministered to by lesbians and gay men. I have experienced homosexual Christians who have vibrantly witnessed to their trust and faith in God and lucidly expounded the meaning of Jesus Christ for their lives and those of others...