Jeffrey Thayne Recap: In my previous post, I discussed how language can sometimes mask alternative ways of understanding and interpreting
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Reconsidering the Way We Talk about Same-sex Attraction
Jeffrey Thayne  Recap: In my previous post, I said that I appreciate Jeffrey Robinson’s account of same-gender attraction for
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Jeffrey Thayne People often talk about same-sex attraction as though there were only two possible ways of explaining it, but
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Jeffrey Thayne When a need presents itself, we have a choice of how to respond. In my previous post (Resisting
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Jeffrey Thayne In my last post, I talked about the difference between Martin Buber’s “I-Thou” and “I-It” relationships, and how
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Of all the many subjects discussed by philosophers over the ages, love is certainly one of the most relevant and
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Jeffrey Thayne I could easily have given up the seat next to me on the bus, but I didn’t. Why
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Jeffrey Thayne In a previous post, I presented Oakeshott’s view of rationality as the capacity to form interpretations of and
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Jeffrey Thayne One of my favorite movies is Contact, based on a novel written by Carl Sagan. One reason I
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Jeffrey Thayne Jesus raising Jairus’s daughter Today, I would simply like to share my conviction that the man who we
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