The Answer to LGBTQ+ Shame
By Andrew Bunt. Andrew is a speaker and writer and is part of the team at Living Out. He explores themes like the one in this blog in his new bookFinding Your Best Identity: A short Christian introduction to identity, sexuality and gender. When I was a young teenager, some of my friends used to […]
Understanding Celibate Partnerships and Committed Friendships
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Christians often think and talk about the challenge of celibate singleness in terms of not-having-sex. But for a lot of unmarried Christians—especially for those who feel called to lifelong celibacy—not-having-sex is just the […]
Pros and Cons of Coming Out
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. “Should I come out to the world as a celibate gay Christian?” I get this question a lot—and to tell you the truth, I’m pretty leery of answering it. […]
Disciple the Queer Generation
By Pieter Valk. Pieter is a speaker/author, Executive Director of Equip (equipyourcommunity.org), cofounder of the Nashville Family of Brothers (familyofbrothers.org), teacher/aspiring deacon in the ACNA, and a licensed professional counselor. He helps churches love gay people and celibate Christians find family. Learn more at pieterlvalk.com. A recent study by George Barna and Arizona Christian […]
Is the Church Getting Safer for LGBTQ People?
By Tony Scarcello. Tony is an author, speaker, pastor, and podcaster. He is the author of Regenerate: Following Jesus After Deconstruction, the host of The Regenerate Podcast, and a licensed Foursquare minister. Tony lives in Springfield, Oregon with the girl of his dreams, his wife Kelsey. You can connect with Tony on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or […]
Interdependence in Change
By Sam Wan. Sam is a local church pastor, a ministry worker in the space of sexuality and gender, and a board member for several disability ministries. He loves researching in practical theology, reading poetry, looking at art, and podcasting at Conversations with Earl Grey and Espresso and Earl Grey. My friend called me […]
Should We Avoid Every Appearance of Evil?
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. In the wake of my comments last week about scandalous housing arrangements, I’ve been pondering the degree of responsibility we bear as followers of Jesus for how we are perceived […]
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts, Part 4: The Diagnostic Problem
This blog series is drawing from the research paper: “The Problems with Correlating Sexual Orientation Change Efforts and Gender Identity Change Efforts,” available for free here. Written by Drs. Paul Eddy and Preston Sprinkle. Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) and so-called Gender Identity Change Efforts (GICE) might overlap in some ways, as I pointed out […]
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts, Part 3: The Ontological Problem
This blog series is drawing from the research paper: “The Problems with Correlating Sexual Orientation Change Efforts and Gender Identity Change Efforts,” available for free here. Written by Drs. Paul Eddy and Preston Sprinkle. In the previous post, we discussed the language problem that’s built into the correlation between Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) and […]
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts, Part 2: The Language Problem
This blog series is drawing from the research paper: “The Problems with Correlating Sexual Orientation Change Efforts and Gender Identity Change Efforts,” available for free here. Written by Drs. Paul Eddy and Preston Sprinkle. In the previous post, we looked at the widespread correlation between Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) and Gender Identity Change Efforts […]