Category: Christianity

Why did Lot’s wife look back?

Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. Genesis 19:24-26, NIV Genesis 19 has the story of the destruction of Sodom, […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 2 years agoJuly 24, 2022

People worshipping a cow marked 'covid' and a wolf in rainbow fleece with the text 'If you are this wrong about covid ... you're probably wrong about LGBT people too.

Christadelphian Christianity

East Kilbride Christadelphians

Imagine that someone insisted that the sky was made of blue glass and the sun was a huge lightbulb. They are just obviously wrong. There is no nuance, no room for doubt. There would be no point in engaging with someone who held that opinion. They didn’t arrive at their conclusion rationally, so it is […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 2 years agoJuly 17, 2022

Christadelphian Christianity Gay

Will you weep with us too?

My name is Andrew McFarland Campbell, and I have been working to support LGBT Christadelphians in one way or another for a very long time. My notes on the subject go back as far as the early 1990s, starting around the time I was baptized. Over the years, I have had the privilege of getting […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 4 years agoJuly 24, 2022

Christianity

Diversity and Equality

Diversity and equality are two things that we hear about a lot today. Both are terms that most of us probably understand, but they are curiously hard terms to define. An organisation can be said to be diverse if it has a wide range of different viewpoints on a particular issue represented among its members, […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years agoJuly 26, 2022

Christianity

Graded Objectives in Modern Equality

Back in the early 1990s, I was studying for my GCSEs. The year before I sat my GCSE French exams, I sat another set of exams in French: a NISEAC Graded Objective in Modern Languages. The Graded Objective in French was essentially a GCSE-lite qualification. It was a subset of what GCSE French covered. After […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years ago

Christianity Gay

Gaudy shirts and ill-fitting jeans: a response to Orlando

I’ve had about four hours sleep, and it is largely down to the news from Orlando. On Facebook, I have seen someone comment on PULSE, saying that it was a place where people in “ill-fitting jeans and gaudy shirts” could have a “good time”. Now, I suspect that I know more than most people about […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 8 years agoJuly 26, 2022

Christianity Gay

Christians and the Conscience Clause

From Faith and Pride… Christian consciences have been a concern since the days of the New Testament. A long time ago, a wise man called Paul the Apostle gave advice to the Christians in Corinth about how to handle their consciences. “I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 8, 2021

Christianity Gay

Equal marriage in Gibraltar

From Faith and Pride… I have had a letter on equal marriage published in the Gibraltar Chronicle. Although I have only lived in Gibraltar for a short time, I have been much struck by the diversity and tolerance shown here. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Bahá’í, people of other faiths, and people of no faith all live […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 26, 2022

Christianity Gay

The Biblical view on being gay and a Christian

From Faith and Pride… And another letter published in the Belfast Telegraph. I take the Bible just as seriously as any other Christian from Northern Ireland. If there were really a single sound-bite verse that could prove that you cannot be gay and Christian, as Good News Messenger seems to think (Writeback, November 17), then […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 9, 2021

Christianity Gay

Remember, some of us are both gay and Christian

From Faith and Pride… I have had another letter on same-sex marriage published in the Belfast Telegraph. IT seems that much of the coverage of the gay marriage cake affair has portrayed it as Christians on one side and gay people on the other. It is too easy for people to forget that some of […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 9 years agoJuly 9, 2021