Author Archives: St. John Studies

The church is supposed to be a place for broken people. Succinct statements like that come from Christians who try to encapsulate the role of the church for society today.  Also these thoughts can come from non-believers who like to … Continue reading →

From time to time, I must take the time to let any reader who reads this blog know what is happening in the discussion. On February 2, 2023 I began an ambitious project to discuss an issue that [at that … Continue reading →

“Exegesis-defined as the critical explanation of a text, especially Biblical Scripture”.   When a person reads Scripture (if they are trying to make meaning of their reading beyond just simple scanning of words) they may be involved in some form of … Continue reading →

One might say that the seminal chapter of Peter Gomes’ The Good Book is Chapter Eight which he entitles “The Bible and Homosexuality: The Last Prejudice.”  In Chapter 8 he recounts the story of the circumstances of his announcement to … Continue reading →

When it comes to homosexuality and its acceptance* by the Christian community, it seems that people talk all around the issue.  What is the basic problem with this topic?  Why does the church struggle with it so much?  Why do … Continue reading →

“God gave them over to shameful lusts.  Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.  In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.  Men committed indecent acts … Continue reading →

When Peter Gomes wrote The Good Book in 1996 some would say he did so to explain how he could be a gay man and also a Christian pastor.  During that time in our culture, the idea of homosexuality was … Continue reading →