Earlier this month, I wrote about the Seventh-day Adventist church’s early history with the sexual orientation change effort industry (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Quest Learning Center and Homosexuals Anonymous both formed during the same era as Exodus International, a sprawling evangelical organization that taught LGBT people, their families, and their churches that “change […]
Everything is a Stepping Stone
Everything is a stepping stone, and by staying on the stone that you are on right now, you create the opportunity to step to the next stone. Invalidate any place you are, invalidate any portion of yourself, and there is no stone from which to step. — Darryl Anka
My Friend’s Dad on Egocentrism
My Friend’s Dad on Egocentrism Because we are so egocentric, we expect the universe to revolve around us and reorganize itself to suit our whims. We sometimes expect God to bend other people out-of-shape to accommodate us. Consider, what does it take to fix a thing? Other people’s lives may have to be changed in […]