James Alison

Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive…

— James Alison

I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for…

— James Alison

I think I have quite traditional views on original sin, grace, and the real but difficult nature of we humans being able…

— James Alison

The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is…

— James Alison

My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate…

— James Alison

I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the…

— James Alison

“The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus…

— James Alison

I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and…

— James Alison

“And this is what it means to be able to see yourself as a sinner: far from “seeing yourself as a sinner”…

— James Alison

I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer.

— James Alison

Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone…

— James Alison