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Core-issues Learning...

a site assisting the churches' understanding of homosexuality...

"And these dear people – who populate the church in millions – are the same people who can shrink from homosexuality as if homosexuality were a plague that could be caught. Homosexuals are seeking nothing more or less than any of us who craves value, identify, love and comfort, and gets addictively involved in searching for it in another human being – or in anything from sex to success. It is the same search gone awry, except that in the homosexual person the dynamics of an early deprivation make it inevitable that the emotional deficit is made up in a person of the same sex. A ‘straight’ woman turns to a man; a homosexual man turns to a man. So what! Both sexualise their need, because they don’t understand its origins. A man may turn to sex, power and status. There is no difference." Brier Whitehead (2003:21), Craving for Love

Core-issues learning is managed by CORE Ministries, a non-profit Christian initiative in Northern Ireland. CORE learning seeks to develop safe, online spaces for those working through issues of homosexuality, and those who support them.It seeks to provide a shared resource for individuals, organisations and local churches working to support such individuals, that also support the CORE vision. Participation in the development of the CORE initiative is invited through the Partnership Proposal, and participants are asked to support the CORE values. Full site access will shortly be given to individuals who request it and are recommended by local churches or related Christian organisations. Registration is free, and manually effected, using a genuine email address. Personal information collected here will never be visible to non-registered visitors to this site, nor will it be shared with third parties. After users have enrolled in a course, they will also have the opportunity to hide their email address from view by other registered participants. Read our Privacy/Confidentiality Policy here.

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God does not cure people of legitimate needs...

"To stop being a homosexual means to stop being a person with same-sex psychological deficits. This can only happen through the fulfilment of such needs and the resolution of any barriers to such fulfilment. Conversely it must be understood very clearly that to thwart the fulfilment of such needs implies that the person is forced to remain homosexual. A non-practising homosexual is still a homosexual. Sexual activity may not be appropriate to the outworking of the solution, but sexual abstinence of itself does not begin to meet the problem of the underlying deficits. Only the non-sexual fulfilment of same-sex needs may do this." Elizabeth Moberly (1983:40), Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic

What this site offers...

Core-issues learning supports the work of CORE Ministries. CORE seeks to provide shared resources for local churches and organisations concerned to minister to homosexual men and woman. The site aims to offer an alternative soundbite and teaching tool for Christians troubled by the manner or tone in which the issue of homosexuality is represented in local churches and by para-church organisations. The site values learning in community. Materials are Bible-based and receptive to both responsible research and the expertise of professionals.

Full access provides:

• Interactive courses and e-learning opportunities
• a variety of audio and visual feeds
• Personal e-mentors
• Personal and private blogging facilities
• Interactive chat
• Forums (synchronous and asynchronous)
• A verity of related secular and Christian news feeds

“Today, new studies place the homoerotic drive in better perspective by showing us that it originates from the search for health and wholeness. Many homosexuals are attracted to other men and their maleness because they are striving to complete their own gender identification. From this perspective, we now better understand the nature of the homosexual person's struggle. And with this understanding, we can offer more than tolerance, but--for those who seek it--hope for healing. More than civil rights, we can offer a way toward wholeness... ... the word "homosexual" is used in this book as convenient shorthand to denote "the man with the homosexual problem." It must always be borne in mind that no man's personhood can be reduced to a simple sexual identity”.

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