The Homosexual Christian

Many gay men and lesbians claim that the Christian faith is the guiding rule of their lives. Some of them hold that their sexual orientation is given by God, that it is good, and that there is nothing wrong or sinful with their homosexual activities. These persons say that the Bible and Church Tradition do not condemn homosexual behaviour, but have been misinterpreted and misused, sometimes unknowingly and other times quite wilfully, by prejudiced and hostile people who hate homosexuals.

The challenge of contemporary homosexual culture to the Orthodox Church

Contemporary homosexual culture? How can we talk of such a thing? What do we mean? It is to these questions that we must turn at the beginning and then consider where the challenge to the Orthodox Church lies. I am sufficiently old – the ‘wrong’ side of 60, to be able to remember quite well […]