Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they …

- James Alison

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

- James Alison

Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that I can put right," and it was go…

- James Alison

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

- James Alison

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

- 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 often a hateful, characterization of …

- James Alison

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

- 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 me. If I have a carapace of academic …

- 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 current teaching of the …

- James Alison