Liberated by the Truth
By Adam Curtis. This post is excerpted with permission from A Better Love: 18 Stories of Meeting Jesus in the Tension of Faith and Sexuality, a collection of stories published by the UK-based ministry Living Out. To read more stories like Adam’s, you can purchase the ebook here. When I was a teenager, I believed […]
The One My Heart Was Made For
This post is excerpted with permission from A Better Love: 18 Stories of Meeting Jesus in the Tension of Faith and Sexuality, a collection of stories published by the UK-based ministry Living Out. To read more stories like Ashleigh’s, you can purchase the ebook here. It is an interesting quirk of my heart that it […]
Reminder: You Don’t Only Have One Life to Live
How I’m currently coming to terms with the insufficiency of this brief, temporary lifetime. I grew up in the “Word of Faith” movement (a.k.a. “Prosperity Gospel” churches). In these circles, I was trained to expect God to show up in miraculous ways. I saw countless people supernaturally healed of issues that ailed them. I […]
The Problems With “Ethically Non-Monogamous”
There’s a moment at the end of the 2023 Oscar nominated movie Past Lives that is so honest, so restrained, so quietly moving, I haven’t stopped thinking about it. The film, directed by Celine Song, follows Nora and Hae Sung—two childhood friends from South Korea—who reconnect as adults in New York City, with Nora now a married […]
When Heresy-Hunters Hunt Themselves
The Original Blog Post: Two days ago, well-known Christian author Christopher Yuan posted on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter): Temptation knocks on everyone’s door—but what happens next is what really matters. A thought by itself isn’t sin, but let it linger, feed it, and suddenly, it takes root . The […]
Reintegrative Therapy and “Serious Misrepresentations”
Author and licensed psychologist Dr. Julia Sadusky recently published a short video explaining why she doesn’t do Reintegrative Therapy as a Catholic therapist. If you’re not familiar with Reintegrative Therapy, it’s a clinical approach which claims to bring about shifts in sexual orientation as a byproduct of trauma therapy. In their own words: “Reintegrative Therapy® is […]
Moving Beyond the Dead End: My Journey with the Concept of Celibacy
“Whoever told you that you were supposed to get married?” The words jolted me awake. In my dream, Jesus had gotten in my face, speaking loud and clear. It was the first time He had ever visibly appeared to me in my sleep, despite years of having many spiritual dreams. My immediate response was to […]
“Is Same-Sex Attraction Godly?”: Greek Answers to English Questions
Before we begin, a brief content warning: If you don’t like thinking nerdily about language (especially New Testament Greek), this blog post may not be for you. For those of you who’d prefer a less nerdy discussion of Greek, I recommend this clip from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. You’re still here? Great! Let’s get started. I’ve […]
When You Come Out to Someone and They Say, “I Don’t Care.”
It happened again last week. I was hanging out with a straight Christian friend—not a good friend, but a new friend—and he brought up “the issue” of same-sex sexuality. He had lots to say about it, which is fine, though I’m sometimes surprised at the passion some straight Christian folks have about non-straight people without […]
I Can Be Your Villain
By Gregory Coles. Greg holds a PhD from Penn State, is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center, and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian, No Longer Strangers, and The Limits of My World. I recently ran into an old friend who might hate my guts. I say “ran into,” but the truth is, we didn’t get […]