A Tenable Belief

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• Covering Suicide: Caution Is Warranted

  Yesterday I closed with a postscript about having found media guidelines for covering suicide. Today I followed up with a post at Pams House Blend. Here’s an excerpt: The evidence-based answer So, we’ve got a painful, uncomfortable, answer to the question: Suicide after bullying is not something set apart, simpler, or more easily prevented than… Continue reading »

• Personal Healing: A Political Act?

  Today, Peterson talks about the importance of telling our stories, highlighting what’s going on at Truth Wins Out with its short, punchy videos (the first one features Shawn O’Donnell) and at Beyond Ex-Gay with more detailed telling of people’s stories. He closes with: The important point is that we need to tell our own stories… Continue reading »

• Dr. Nicolosi Speaking in London

  Apparently, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, co-founder of NARTH, will speak to a faith-based group in London in June. His presentation is titled Time for Truth – Is Gay Real? and the plan is that he will “take a scientific rather than an explicitly Christian approach.” I just wonder whether he Will seem angry, or struggle for… Continue reading »

• Stephen Bennett: Preaching to the Choir in 2007

  At the end of November I noted that Stephen Bennett Ministries was calling for $100K in year-end donations to retire its $25K debt and pay its expenses for the first 3 months of 2007. As December progressed, the debt-retirement number dropped to $18K and according to Google cache from December 28th, to $10K. The call… Continue reading »

• Search engine oddities

  It’s been months since I’ve looked at hit counts or referral info to gauge who is coming to A Tenable Belief, or why. (How many visitors come here? At best it’s been less than a dozen on an average day, which works for me. I started this project with an awareness of how blogs have… Continue reading »

• Wise? Compassionate? Relevant? You decide.

  I have to sort through a number of possible responses after reading Alan Chambers’ words: The people who are transgendered, the people who are in homosexuality, I would venture to say from personal experience that they’re not at peace, and that true love isn’t able to be found in those types of relationships. I’ve interacted… Continue reading »

• Stephen Bennett Ministries NEEDS $100K

  For as little as I’ve written at this site, a disproportionate share has examined Stephen Bennett Ministries. As far as I can tell, he’s got a knack for communicating smoothly, yet often unable to get beyond self-contradiction and hyperbole. So, when I read large red banner text at the ministry’s home page saying his ministry… Continue reading »

• The Dobson Approach: Alluding and Eluding

  OK, in my previous post, James Dobson, Still Fighting the Slave Trade? I overreached a bit with this: He infers moral equivalence between the campaign to abolish the slave trade with his campaign against gay families. Arguments over analogies and moral (and immoral) equivalence exhaust me. So I gotta apologize for slipping up and adopting… Continue reading »

• James Dobson, Still Fighting the Slave Trade?

  I’m a little late to the party… other folks like Shakespeare’s Sister and Pam Spaulding noticed this a couple days ago. CNN published James Dobson’s commentary on Wednesday. He complained that the media is glossing over the breadth and significance of popular support for an anti-gay marriage amendment. He doesn’t care much for distinctions between… Continue reading »

• Christian Hearts For Queer Parts

  Over at the Blend, Pam points to a guest commentary at Agape Press by J. Matt Barber titled It’s the Behavior, Stupid! — and Other Observations of a So-Called ‘Homophobe’. Barber discusses Robert Smith, who had been appointed to represent the people of Maryland on the DC-area Metro transit authority board but was removed from… Continue reading »