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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Understanding Celibate Partnerships and Committed Friendships
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Christians often think and talk about the challenge of celibate singleness in terms of not-having-sex. But for a lot of unmarried Christians—especially for those who feel called to lifelong celibacy—not-having-sex is just the […]
Pros and Cons of Coming Out
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. “Should I come out to the world as a celibate gay Christian?” I get this question a lot—and to tell you the truth, I’m pretty leery of answering it. […]
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 […]
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 […]