Conference Reviews
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Reflections on a week at Living Waters.
Written circa 2014. Living Waters Australia was a ministry that originally began as a programme to address homosexual sin. Over the years it expanded to address all types of sexual and emotional healing. The ministry is no longer running. Paula and I just spent a week in Sydney doing a Living Waters intensive. And it was really good. Here, in no particular order, are some of the things I liked: a) It was incredibly low-key. While there were some very charismatic/pentecostal moments during the singing (which I don’t have a big problem with) hype was almost non-existent. I don’t know if this is normal of all Living Waters programmes, but…
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“An Anthropological Perspective on Sin, Desire, and Sexuality” – A Review.
This post was written circa 2015. I have followed Denny Burk’s blog for…must be at least ten years. I share a lot of theological convictions with him. I have also met someone who knew him, so I know he is a real person! (grin) I appreciate him and his writing. I agree with a lot of what he has to say on homosexuality, and believe the book, Transforming Homosexuality that he and Heath Lambert wrote would be a valuable read. But I disagree with him on the points he makes in his presentation, “An Anthropological Perspective on Sin, Desire, and Sexuality” during the 2015 ETS debate about Reparative Therapy. He only makes two points, so…
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“Why Reparative Therapy is not an Evangelical Option” – A Review.
Post written circa 2015. When I listened to “Why Reparative Therapy is not an Evangelical Option“, Heath Lambert’s talk for the 2015 ETS debate about Reparative Therapy, I appreciated Heath’s desire to honour Christ in counseling. His plea for Christians to not miss Christ for the reparative trees is something I can get whole-heartedly behind. But, listening to his talk, I also wondered whether he should have changed the title from “Why Reparative Therapy is not an Evangelical Option” to, “Why Reparative Therapy needs Evangelical Revision”. Read on to find out why. What you’ll find in this post: – The Talk. – Overall Impressions. – Why Evangelicals Should Not Reject Reparative Therapy.…
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“Reparative Therapy: Is It a Valid Approach to Helping Homosexuals?” – Some Reviews
Category: I’m Registering an Opinion Published: Sunday, 27 December 2015 Written by The Kiwi Well, I’m glad to say that Denny Burk and Heath Lambert finally said something more about their rejection of Reparative Therapy. After Heath put out a little article called, What’s Wrong with Reparative Therapy?, Denny’s consistent fall back was to merely link to the article. (Lambert’s article has now moved here). I was glad, then, when they set up a debate with the title, Reparative Therapy: Is It a Valid Approach to Helping Homosexuals? at the 2015 ETS. Apparently Robert Gagnon was the only person available to take up the challenge, but, as you can hear someone say in the background at the beginning of…
