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Why It Matters that Jesus REALLY Rose
By
Tony Jones
Last week, I spent time with some new friends in Canada. Most of them were church leaders in the United Church of Canada, the result of a denominational merger in 1925. The United Church is unabashedly liberal in its social stances, for example, affirming same sex unions in 2003. Due to my positions on the…
Doug Kmiec Is Right: Clergy Should Not Perform (Legal) Marriages
By
Tony Jones
Last week, Doug Kmiec went on Colbert and became the next in a long line of people: Those who’ve gone on Colbert and said what I want to say on Colbert. Kmiec said what more and more of us are saying: Churches and clergy should get out of the marriage business. And by that I…
Getting Beyond the “Ick Factor” in the Gay Marriage Debate
By
Tony Jones
In one of my early posts on same sex marriage, I wrote that I used to be in the “natural law” camp of persons who said that, thought there’s not an overwhelming amount of verses in the Bible about homosexuality (six, to be exact), there’s a strong argument to be made from Genesis. It’s the…
Breaking News: Rod Will Debate Same Sex Marriage
By
Tony Jones
It just turns out that he won’t debate it with me. Last fall, Rod and I agreed, at the behest of our then-editor, Patton Dodd, to hold a friendly “blogalogue” on same sex marriage. It was in the aftermath of California’s Prop 8 passage. I went to Dallas and met Rod, and even shot this…
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