Recently, for various reasons, there has been a good deal of talk about the merits and failures of abstinence-only sex education.
In the last month or so, much has been made about marriage and its relationship to the State.
So. Andy is one of my best friends. He just got married yesterday, and I wanted to say major congratulations to him and Andrea. The new bride and groom are both authentic people, and at the same time they are authentically in love with each other and their God.
My wife and I have been married for just over four and a half years.
I'm a male, Christian feminist. I have learned and taught the truth of Scripture, that before God there is no division between men and women, just as there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles.
At Josh Brown's blog, there is a series of posts that I began to link to yesterday that are challenging some of the common critiques leveled against Emergent (and in this sense, I do mean, at least predominantly, Emergent Village, not the global emerging church). One of the posts deals with the conception that Emergent consists of white guys, sitting around talking about theology.
I married my best friend at a church in Lakeland, Florida, in a building that had previously been a Scotty's hardware store.
Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent / emerging follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.
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