Showing posts with label Nashville Statement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nashville Statement. Show all posts

Friday, September 22, 2017

The Meaning of the Nashville Line in the Sand | Political Research Associates

The hundreds of Southern Baptist and conservative Reformed leaders who initially signed the recent Nashville Statement, have always opposed all forms of sexuality and gender expressions outside of heterosexual marriage. But in the face of broad cultural and legal acceptance of marriage equality and increased visibility and acceptance of transgender people, they decided to take a stand – and to develop an organizing campaign to carry it forward. The Nashville Statement offers a detailed and arguably historic condemnation of LGBTQ people, and those who tolerate or approve of them, especially Christians. “Evangelical Christians at the dawn of the twenty-first century,” they declared, “find themselves living in a period of historic transition.” And they are forming a coalition to recharge the so-called culture war and make clear that it will never be over.....
http://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/09/12/the-meaning-of-the-nashville-line-in-the-sand/#sthash.q8wA3pi2.O1XVOJt8.dpbs


Sunday, September 10, 2017

Are evangelicals inventing a new kind of Christianity that’s all about sex? -- ThinkProgress.org

Evangelical Christians are up to something new. At least that's the position of many criticizing the "Nashville Statement," a controversial document championing "biblical" sexual ethics that was penned this past week and signed by roughly 150 prominent evangelical leaders. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/are-evangelicals-inventing-a-new-form-of-christianity-all-about-sex-46ff64454c8f/







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