1. A post with a few thoughts on the doctrine of "Biblical" Inerrancy. A watershed moment in my own journey was coming to the realization that this doctrine was neither biblical nor helpful.
2. This is the second time I've come across the blog Sacred Tension. This post on the tragically high cost of forcing celibacy on gay people nails the problem on the head, through individual stories that deserve to be given a fair hearing by those who make that demand. One of these days I hope to get around to writing about the compartmentalization I did in (and prior to) my ex-gay days and the ways that continues to impact my own life.
3. Finally, a quote:
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error…- Benjamin Franklin, Speech before the Constitutional Convention, Sept. 17, 1787, recorded by James Madison
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