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October 30, 2018

By Alan Lamb (name changed to protect privacy)  

If I never learned about pure, undistilled grace, I would have transitioned to a female and left the church. 

 

My journey...

October 24, 2018

By Preston Sprinkle. This article was originally posted at Relevant. 

Church can be a tough place for single people. Most Christians don’t realize it, unless they’re single, but if you step...

October 16, 2018

The following post was written by Laurie Krieg, a member of our Collaborative Team, and Founder and Executive Director of Hole in My Heart Ministries. 

 

Sometimes, when I am meeting...

October 8, 2018

I’m a closeted gay man.

 

When I first typed that sentence, it felt good. The more I looked at it on my screen, the less good it felt. I want the courage to delete the word “closeted...

September 28, 2018

Hey friends!

One of the most frequent questions we receive from pastor’s is: How do we actually do this? That is, how do we move from ideas to implementation? That question drove us back to...

September 18, 2018
Hey friends!   I can’t tell you how excited I am to announce that Grace/Truth 2.0 is now available! After many months of writing, editing, rethinking, rewriting, consulting, and more writing, editing...
September 7, 2018

Colby Martin is a pastor and church planter in San Diego, CA, and he has written an engaging book on “Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality.” The book is half memoir and half Bible...

August 29, 2018

A recent study of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria—the first of its kind—has created waves across the internet. Some transgender activists are outraged over it; others on the political right are using...

August 28, 2018

My previous two posts (PART ONE and PART TWO) explored the complexity of sexual orientation, showing that the rigid categories of gay, straight, and bisexual aren’t as rigid as many people assume...

August 22, 2018

The following is a preview of our 12th Pastoral Paper, available now as a free download from the Center. 

This paper has a narrow aim: to understand what the Bible says about the...

August 16, 2018

In the previous post, we saw that measuring sexual orientation is much more complicated than people realize. Sexual orientation is, in the words of Rebecca Jordan-Young, a “great example of a ‘...

August 9, 2018

The short answer is: a lot less than we think we do.

 

I often hear people use terms like gay, straight, or bisexual as if these categories are neatly defined. Or I’ll hear people...