A seminary professor of mine did a sermon series entitled, "Why can't Christian marriages be more like affairs." This was a radical look at the passionless relationships that those in the church tend to have, and the wildly passionately affairs that are often the result. Just this weekend I began to think about the series, "Lessons the church has to learn from the gay community."

My sermon this past week was on Pride and I did not know how to address that subject without making some reference to the gay community and the pride parade since the average person in the Bay Area immediately associates Pride with Gay pride. Isn't it interesting that the two communities that have any interest at all in the issue of pride are the church and the gay community? What else do we share in that way?