A Collab with Adele and Paul the Apostle
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. I unwound my car window when I […]
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 […]
Meditations on My Spam Folder
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Every week or so, I skim through the emails that have accrued in my Gmail spam folder, just in case some legitimate email wound up in there by accident. And […]
Equivocation and the Ex-Gay Script
By Greg Johnson. This blog post is adapted from Greg’s forthcoming book Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality (Zondervan, 2021). www.StillTimeToCare.com It was the question I dreaded most. I sat in the university medical center that day in 1997 and stared at the paper. […]
You Will Never Be Ready
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Every once in a while, I get invited to speak to a church or faith-based organization, only to have that invitation retracted later. Sometimes the cancellation happens for reasons I […]
The Before-and-After Testimony Problem
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Back in my teenage, evangelical-youth-group-attending days, part of me wished I had been a drug addict. I’m not saying I wanted to be a drug addict. Heavens no. But […]
The Heterosexuality of Tim Keller
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. A few days ago, I stumbled across this video of Tim Keller making the following statement about human sexuality: “If I was perfectly sanctified, I would have no ability […]
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 […]
On Scandalous Housing Arrangements
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. I am an unmarried man. I live with an unmarried woman. It’s just the two of us in the house, alone and unchaperoned. Yet somehow—though this may shock you […]
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 […]