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Series Editor's
Preface
To Continue the
Dialogue
Because homosexuality
or same-gender sexual affection is a “living
issue” that deserves serious discussion and an
examination of various ways Christians understand the
topic, To Continue the Dialogue is an an
appropriate volume with which to inaugurate the Living
Issues Discussion Series. All books in the series provide
guidelines for discussion as well as comments from
respondents who begin the conversation through freedom
not only to affirm but also to disagree with perspectives
offered by authors or editors.
Special thanks are due
to the many persons, both named and unnamed, who through
involvement with To Continue the Dialogue helped
launch the series. First to deserve credit is John A.
Lapp. When he sent his response to the book, he suggested
that such a series might be useful and that Dialogue
was already nearly in such a format. Convinced, we
immediately began to establish the series parameters and
to polish this book into series format. Of course C.
Norman Kraus, editor of Dialogue, deserves thanks
for his many months of hard work on the book and for
modeling, in his work with authors and publisher, the
type of vigorous and candid taking of positions combined
with flexible readiness to learn from the other we hope
the series will help support. We also thank those who
first suggested that a book on homosexuality be
developed.
That is not to imply Dialogue
is perfect. We wish, for example, that more of the
writers asked to add their voices to the discussion
underway in these pages had felt able to do so.
Nevertheless, we are grateful for the many who have
contributed insightfully, respectfully, and with some
diversity of viewpoint to matters so frequently divisive.
We pray that the discussion they help move forward will
continue to unfold with the care they model.
—Michael A. King, Living Issues Discussion Series
Editor
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