This is part eight in this blog series on the Theology of the Body. — In Matthew 19:3-12 Jesus amazes the disciples by saying that even in the face of human brokenness and sin, God’s original design for marriage remains intact. Indeed, the force of Jesus’ teaching is so great that the disciples say something […]

This is the seventh part of a blog series on the theology of the body. — In this blog I would like to talk about a deep fundamental violation of the sacrament of the body.  When we survey the wide landscape of sexual brokenness in our world today; undoubtedly the one which looms above them […]

This is part of a series of articles on marriage, human sexuality and the body. Read Part I here. Read Part II here. Read Part III here. Read Part IV here. Read Part V here. — One of the persistent myths which is deeply rooted in popular Christian consciousness is that the Old Testament is […]

This is part of a series of articles on marriage, human sexuality and the body. Read Part I here. Read Part II here. Read Part III here. Read Part IV here. Read Part VI here. – Within marriage, we discover what John Paul calls the “spousal meaning of the body.”  We are created for marriage.  […]

This is part of a series of articles on marriage, human sexuality and the body. Read Part I here. Read Part II here. Read Part III here. Read Part V here. – I am using as the basis for these homilies the wonderful theological work done by the late Pope, John Paul II which he […]

This is part of a series of articles on marriage, human sexuality and the body. Read Part I here. Read Part II here. — One of the great insights of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body series is his understanding of what it meant for Adam to be “alone.”  Before the creation of […]

This is part of a series of articles on marriage, human sexuality and the body. Read Part I here. — The problem we face today is actually much deeper than we realize.  The Christian church in the West has largely embraced the wider cultural views regarding the very purpose of marriage—and therefore, we get off […]

The United Methodist Church is in the full throes of a crisis, with deep divisions over our response to homosexual practice and the ordination of self-avowed homosexuals.  The latest attempt to resolve this crisis is a plan known as “a local option proposal compromise.”  This plan has emerged through the good faith efforts of a […]

This is the beginning of a series of blogs on marriage, human sexuality and the body. — Brother and sisters, we are living in the wake of a multi-generational neglect of a biblical vision of the body, marriage and human sexuality.  The church’s inability in recent years to articulate a compelling response to issues like […]

This past summer, between June 11 and August 10, I had the privilege of being on five different continents (N. America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) learning more about global Christianity. Africa I started out in Tanzania where our daughter Bethany is part of a team of 9 people bringing the gospel to an Unreached […]