Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are. — James Alison Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a hateful, characterization of and set of attitudes toward gay and lesbian people. — James Alison Copy Share Image
Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able to learn… — James Alison Copy Share Image
The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological… — James Alison Copy Share Image
My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching… — James Alison Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a… — James Alison Copy Share Image
“And this is what it means to be able to see yourself as a sinner: far from “seeing yourself as a sinner” being some… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer. — James Alison Copy Share Image
Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that… — James Alison Copy Share Image
