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You might be interested in this article by Connally Gilliam from the Trinity Forum Academy's online newsletter CONVERSATIONS. The opening text is below; see this link for the rest: http://www.ttf.org/index/conversations/detail/will-you-go-there/ ---------- Will You Go There? A guest speaker reflects on her visit with the Academy Fellows. Are there any charged discussion topics that you like to avoid? Issues about which you have your secret opinions (or sticky confusions) but would prefer not to visit? I’m thinking of a few doozies like homosexuality, racial identity, the nature of gender, and so on. My October visit with the Trinity Forum Academy Fellows reinforced a growing suspicion that I’ve had: given the urbanizing, diversifying, globalizing, secularizing, twenty-first-century culture in which we live, we need to have the chutzpah to face head on the questions that nip at the heels and oftentimes hearts of the next, twenty-something, or however-you’d-like-to-call-it generation. For when these questions are avoided, perhaps out of reasons as innocuous as social decorum, we can inadvertently castrate the apparent scope and power of the gospel of Jesus Christ and his kingdom. Oh, Christianity doesn’t speak meaningfully to the issues of the real world. Conversely, when we are willing to go there in all our blind messiness (I’m not saying God is blind or messy, but we oftentimes are), these questions can become portals to discovery. We can discover that the living, triune God is seriously unthreatened by (and quite capable of leading us through if we’ll humbly follow) a convoluted, confusing, cultural landscape. ---------- The entry has 390 more words. http://www.ttf.org/index/conversations/detail/will-you-go-there/