Barbie, Augustine, and the Beauty We Were Made For
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Last week, I donned my best pink t-shirt[1] and went with six similarly bedecked friends to watch Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie movie. That night when I got home, I set the movie’s best original song[2] playing on […]
On Growing Old with Jesus
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Have you ever met an old married couple and thought to yourself, “These two have basically turned into the same person?” They might not look alike (or maybe they do)—but either way, they act the same. […]
Being and Becoming
By Sam Wan. Sam is 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. You do not have to be good.You do not have to […]
Challenges Faced by Parents of LGBTQ Kids
Last summer, The Center took a survey of over 500 Christian parents who have LGBTQ+ or same-sex attracted kids. We wanted to better understand the challenges these parents were currently facing—and we used the data we gathered in that survey to help us create our series Parenting LGBTQ Kids. Now that the series is complete, we want to […]
Did Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Relationships Exist in Biblical Times? A Response to Matthew Vines
Introducing Our New Director of Church and Ministry Relations!
By Preston Sprinkle, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender I’m excited to announced that we just hired Lou Phillips as our new Director of Church and Ministry Relations! I could not be more thrilled about bringing Lou onto our team. The Center has been plowing forward for the last several years, producing […]
Rainbow Flags and Symbolic Ambiguity
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. This is a blog post about rainbow flags and other LGBTQ+-related symbols. But it’ll take us a little while to get there. First, let’s talk about crude hand gestures. […]
Curiously Fluid Data on Sexual Fluidity
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Last month, I wrote a blog post discussing the findings in a recent study on sexual orientation change. (With apologies for spoiling the surprise: I concluded that the study was methodologically dubious, and that orientation change may […]
Is Reintegrative Therapy Making People Straight?, Part 1
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. If you visit the website of the Reintegrative Therapy Association, you’ll see a triumphant announcement on their homepage declaring, “Landmark Study Shows Trauma Treatment Significantly Alters Sexual Attractions.” Dig deeper into the website, and you’ll find this […]
New Testament Gentiles and Gay Christians
The following post, written by Misty Irons, is adapted from her presentation at the Revoice conference on October 8, 2021. Because her argument offers fresh insight into much-debated questions about sexual identity and Christian faithfulness, we’re grateful for her permission to publish her words here. Misty is a graduate of Westminster Seminary California (M.A., Biblical Studies) […]