Tag: moral issues

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Journal Wisdom

Wise article from a personal perspective on overcoming sin

This article is a rare gem.  Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, former tenured professor of English, writes of her own conversion to Christianity and its effect upon her lesbian lifestyle.     The best part of the article is her wise discussion of how genuine Christian discipleship changes our lives, conquers our sins, and enables us to live holy and healed lives.   Though John Owen from whom she  draws her conclusions lived a hundred years before Methodism was born,  the four points she sets forth would make good Methodist theology too.    Those who think homosexuality is congenital and unchangeable like race also need to read testimonies like this one since she provides personal evidence against both assumptions.

http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-dead-end-of-sexual-sin

 

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Journal News Commentary

Less partisanship needed to resolve immigration issue

On the issue of immigration, I am appalled that the Republican party cannot see the need for compromise and the necessity of fixing a badly broken immigration system.  When families are being tragically divided and young adults who were brought here as children are being deprived of their futures for lack of paperwork, justice is not being done.  How long will the Republicans hide behind tired rhetoric about “amnesty” that doesn’t get the job done.  I agree with Obama on this issue that the Congress has had long enough to act (and I seldom agree with Obama).    This recent statement by John Boehner just shows once again that the Republicans don’t get it on this issue.  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30049038.  They are completely unconcerned with the human plight of  illegal alien families while being perfectly happy to live in a society that takes advantage of, in fact depends upon, the labor provided by immigrants.  I wish the Republicans would replace Boehner with a leader who understands the issues from a less partisan perspective.   They need to do something about immigration for justice sake and they also need to remember how much they needed the Latino vote in 2012.