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 […]
Am I Incomplete?
By Andrew Bunt. Andrew is an assistant pastor and a part of the team at Living Out. He’s the author of People Not Pronouns: Reflections on Transgender Experience‘ and is a regular contributor at Think. To my great distress, I recently discovered that I am incomplete! Apparently, spouses should be able to look at each […]
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 […]
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 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 […]