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Growing Up in a Gay Home

TweetIf you didn’t already know, I was raised in a gay household. The uniqueness of my childhood and adolescence has done much to shape me in ways positive and negative, realized and soon-to-be-realized. God has undeniably done remarkable and supernatural things in my life and story, and now I hope that he will work evermore through my story. [...]

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How to Talk to Atheists Part 2

TweetThis post would probably be more aptly titled “Why we ought to talk to atheists according to methods prescribed in Part 1“.  But I I like parallel structure, so it’s part 2. Take this one with a grain of salt because it has considerably less biblical support than part 1 and leans heavily upon my own experience and [...]

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Look Me in the Eyes

TweetThe other day, my friend Kyle and I were walking around at the Ann Arbor Art Fair when we were approached by a self-identified traveling monk named Mukunda. I assume he was Hindu because he handed Kyle and me two copies of the Bhagavad Gita and told us he was on a mission to spread the message of [...]

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Grace and Porn: The Hugh Hefner Story

TweetA lot of students in our church struggle with sexual addiction. As I’ve come to learn more about the dynamics of a sexual addiction, I’ve become increasingly convinced that grace (undeserved favor resulting in a total release from guilt), rather than a white-knuckle effort to alter behavior, is the only solution (see Colossians 2:20-23). Experts on the subject [...]

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