Paul Clayton

“When we are fearful as disciples or as a church, “we begin thinking primarily about what we want to prevent and avoid rather than what we want to encourage and develop.”
― Debra Hirsch, Redeeming Sex: Naked Conversations About Sexuality and Spirituality

“Creating a redemptive focus to our lives means that we love homosexual people as ourselves. It means that we treat them with the same kind of grace, respect, care and compassion with which we want to be treated. It means that we fight alongside of them against hateful action aimed at their community. It means all of the above, even if we do not agree with their sexual ethic.”
― Debra Hirsch, Redeeming Sex: Naked Conversations About Sexuality and Spirituality

“In him we are set free from striving, set free from being motivated by fear, guilt and shame. In him we can find rest.”
― Debra Hirsch, Redeeming Sex: Naked Conversations About Sexuality and Spirituality

“Christianity will regain its moral authority when it starts emphasizing social sin in equal measure with individual (read “body-based”) sin and weave them both into a seamless garment of love and truth.”
― Debra Hirsch, Redeeming Sex: Naked Conversations About Sexuality and Spirituality