Regardless of how you feel about Jennifer Knapp’s recent admission, she comes across confident, smart and collected.

In part two and three of this interview, in my opinion she sounds more Christ-like than the pastor she’s in dialogue with. Not because of his position, but because he has no willingness to listen to anyone else’s stance. To me, Pastor Bob is more concerned with being right than entering into another person’s story and loving them where they’re at–regardless of whether you agree with them or not.

In this whole interview, I think Ted Haggard comes off as the hero. Yes, that Ted Haggard. He shows up in part three. Ted’s reminder to us that we’re all in process is a message for the ages. Simply brilliant.

Here’s part one of the interview with Larry King. (This video links to parts two, three and four at the end).

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I’ve heard them. No doubt you have to. So has Jennifer Knapp. The so-called “clobber verses“–Bible passages used to “clobber” people in the debate surrounding same-gender sexual relations. It’s the Westboro Baptist Church-pitch dressed in polite language.

There’s Sodom and Gomorrah…

There’s the Levitical Law…

There’s the arsenokoitais debate…

But one passage is consistently left out of the same-gender sex discussion: Genesis 2. Specifically, verses 21 through 25. I’ve been thinking about this passage a lot lately. Struggling with it. Mostly because the logical end leads me to a conclusion that is less-than-popular.

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Almost every bit of media that you encounter on a daily basis is trying to sell you something. Do you realize this?

Whenever I go to the gym, I engage in “cultural exegesis” by watching MTV. We don’t have cable at our house (for a million different, brilliant reasons), so this is the only time during the week I’m exposed to cable pop culture. An hour is a perfect length to engage this medium–anymore and I’m afraid I’d get hooked.

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Name three things that the culture around you values.

For instance, in Iowa we value:

1. Working hard (agricultural society filled with farmers).
2. Family (byproduct of agricultural society–needed plenty of kinfolk to keep the farm going).
3. Fiscal responsibility (debt is largely frowned upon, probably because of #1. If you don’t have the money, you don’t buy it!).

What about your culture? I’m leaving that open-ended on purpose. Your “culture” may be your family, your place of employment, your city, your place of worship, country, lifestyle, etc.

What does your culture value?

On Tuesday night I set my Facebook status up to say, “Jennifer Knapp is a lesbian.”

• I did not state personal opinion.
• I did not claim a theological position.
• I only stated verifiable fact coming from Jennifer herself.

Below is what ensued. The results were fascinating.

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It’s true. Jennifer Knapp is a lesbian.

As someone who listened to her music during college, I immediately took an interest in this story for various reasons:

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Apparently, this is true.

It seems as though heavy sedation brings out the inner-gospel singer in this young woman (she’s having her wisdom teeth taken out).

Could this be an effective strategy for bringing young adults back the church? (Tongue-firmly-planted-in-cheek).

Watch and enjoy.

President Obama is signing a nuclear arms reduction treaty (the START treaty) with Russia. The long and short of it is that both nations will agree to make less nuclear bombs and reduce the amount they currently have.

The US and Russia hold 90% of the world’s nuclear weaponry, so they seem to be a logical starting point.

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