IN WHICH: Joel tackles a difficult question
Over the last couple weeks now, I've been finding myself engaged in some good, old-fashioned apologetics and discussion. You see... the Presbyterian Church has been making some news. And some history. Oddly enough, I haven't really had a lot of the conversations I'd been expecting to have in the community - I consider myself fortunate, especially as other sister churches in our denomination are already seeing repercussions of the PC(USA)'s decision to redefine marriage as being between "two people, traditionally a man and a woman." I haven't (knock on wood) received threats to the church . I haven't had people storming my office demanding explanations or wondering when the first gay marriage ceremony was scheduled to happen. Our local paper hasn't contacted me at all about the decision - which is interesting, given that the editor is a more conservative man who tends to cover some of these kinds of things in his editorials. But I also haven