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Book cover for Dahveed: Yahweh's Chosen: Author's Edition
Age of Dahveed and Jonathan--Nearly everyone assumes that Dahveed and Jonathan were close in age. And nearly everyone is wrong. First Samuel 13:1 tells us that Shaul was 30 years old when he began to reign, and that he reigned for 42 years. ...more
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David  Ferguson
“In my mind, choice is the basis of Christianity, but the choice is not about sexuality, it is about how we treat other people. That is the choice about which we should be most concerned.”
David Ferguson, Christianity and Homosexuality - Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives

David  Ferguson
“As I became more open about both the abuse and my sexuality, I discovered that many people tried to link these two aspects of my life in a cause-and-effect relationship. It became frustrating for me to explain repeatedly that sexual abuse does not necessarily affect sexual orientation, as evidenced by the multitudes of straight women who survive abuse. I eventually realized that people who need a reason for homosexuality will find one regardless of its relevance. As for myself, I believe I would have been a lesbian with or without a history of sexual abuse.”
David Ferguson, Christianity and Homosexuality - Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives

David  Ferguson
“Without going into detail, after many years I have become convinced that the biblical references to same-sex behavior were written in a situational and cultural context that does not apply to people with a homosexual orientation, and that the Bible does not give specific instruction regarding how homosexuals should live.”
David Ferguson, Christianity and Homosexuality - Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives

Colby Martin
“So at the risk of being a broken record, was Paul condemning people born with same-sex attraction? No. Was he condemning any and all same-sex sex acts? No. Was he condemning sexual activity, engaged in by people of the same sex, that was either exploitive (such as pederasty) or economic (such as prostitution) in nature? It would sure seem so.”
Colby Martin, UnClobber: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality

Heather  McGhee
“The word union itself seemed to be a dog whistle in the South, code for undeserving people of color who needed a union to compensate for some flaw in their character. As the workers spoke, I realized that it couldn’t be a coincidence that, to this day, the region that is the least unionized, with the lowest state minimum wages and the weakest labor protections overall, was the one that had been built on slave labor—on a system that compensated the labor of Black people at exactly zero.”
Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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