We constantly hear the mantra that love is love, but what exactly is love? Today, many think “love” means to affirm the beliefs, desires, and even behaviors of a given person. According to this view, one must validate and positively state that same-sex attraction, or one’s desire to become the opposite sex, are good in order truly to love someone with such desires. Therefore, those who do not positively state that such desires are good are accused of “hate speech,” “intolerance,” being “unloving,” or worse.
This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Adam Tucker about his Postmodern Realities article from 39:6 entitled,“Love Is Love, or Is It?”
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Other articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring this author:
- Homosexuality and Modern Ministry: Examining Old Approaches and Assessing New Ones Part One: A History of Missions and Missteps
- Part Two of a two-part series: Homosexuality and Modern Ministry: Examining Old Approaches and Assessing New Ones Part Two: Identity, Terminology, and the Revoice Conference“.
- Episode 103 Homosexuality and Modern Ministry: Part Two
- Episode 126 What’s the Problem with Conversion Therapy?
- Episode 043: Understanding Our Response to LGBT Culture
- Understanding Our Response To LGBT Culture
- Episode 028: “The Unending Bending of Gender: Helpful or Harmful?”
- The Unending Bending of Gender: Helpful or Harmful?
- What’s the Problem with Conversion Therapy?
- Episode 065: Love, Simon Film Review “When Hearts Are Young and Gay” with Joe Dallas
- A Review of Love, Simon, “When Hearts are Young and Gay”.
- Wrestling With The “Gay Christian” Label
- The (Casual) Sexual Revolution (Book Review of: American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus)
- Boy Erased Movie Review
- When Vague Is in Vogue: A New but Not Improved Approach to Homosexuality Is Growing among Evangelicals
- The Bully Pulpit: When Gay Teens Commit Suicide, Are Preachers to Blame?
- Is “Gay Christian” an Acceptable Identity?
- Of Bathroom Bills and Basic Beliefs
- The Transsexual Dilemma
- Hath God Said? Assessing the Church’s “Change of Heart” about Homosexuality
- When Someone You Love Says, “I’m Gay”