At a missiology conference next month   in Dallas, Sherwood Lingenfelter will be discussing homosexuality. Sherwood is a well-known and respected missiological anthropologist, the former provost at Fuller Theological Seminary, and the loving father of a lesbian daughter.  There are a number of challenges that he will face as he presents,

Christians encounter ideas about supernatural realities not only from the Bible, but from the cultures in which we live. In many cultures one finds the belief that misfortunes are caused by human third parties acting malevolently through evil occult means. The misfortunes these people are believed to cause range from infertility or economic ruin to…