![]() ![]() ![]() Lateraling himself, Paul told me he had a friend, George Guthrie, who’d offered a thorough and balanced critique of Changing Our Mind. So, remembering my friend Paul Copan, a great thinker who is both a philosopher and an ethicist, I asked him if he’d written anything in response to Gushee. Yet knowing when to “lateral” is an important and time-saving skill. ![]() Who am I, after all? I’m not the most qualified to engage these issues, even though I’ve been an adviser for Strength in Weakness since its inception, and appreciate the seriousness and relevance of sexual issues in our day. (Several of these I address in an interview with Guy Hammond, “ Gay & Christian?”.) But after a few hours fleshing out my thinking on Gushee’s work, I stopped. Meanwhile, a friend dealing with LGBTQ issues in his own community emailed, mentioning Gushee and asking some pointed biblical questions. And I am glad I did this is an important work, if only because it is influential. I asked her if the book was well done-with over 1 million new books appearing every year, we all need to be selective! She said Changing Our Mind is well worth reading, so I ordered it right away, and read it last week. Gushee’s Changing Our Mind: Definitive 3rd Edition of the Landmark Call for Inclusion of LGBT Christians with Response to Critics (Canton, MI: Read the Spirit Books, 2017).
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