Clothed with Suffering
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 with people, I hit what I call a “suffering sentence.” A suffering sentence is a brick wall of unavoidable pain I do not […]
Reflections from a Closeted Gay Pastor
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” and to not confine my declaration to written words that will never be attributed to me by […]
Announcing A Pastor’s Resource!
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 the drawing board to create A Pastor’s Resource. This multi-media resource helps equip pastors and leaders to create a culture of […]
Book Review: UnClobber by Colby Martin
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 study, and it’s written in a light hearted and lively prose that makes the book very easy to read. […]
Why I Support the Revoice Conference
By Preston Sprinkle There’s been a lot of talk over the last few weeks about the upcoming Revoice conference. Revoice is a conference and community for LGBT+/SSA Christians—Christians who experience same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria—who are committed to a historically Christian sexual ethic. Every person presenting at Revoice believes that marriage is between a man […]
Guidance for Churches on Membership, Baptism, Communion, Leadership, and Service for Gay and Lesbian People
Joshua Ryan Butler is on the Collaborative Team for The Center and serves as Pastor of Local and Global Outreach at Imago Dei Community in Portland, OR. You can read his whole bio by clicking here. Can I Belong? There is perhaps no question more central to the human heart than this: Can I […]
I Need to Be Known
The following blog is written by Greg Coles. Greg is a Ph.D. candidate at Penn State and is part of The Center’s collaboration team. My favorite online dictionary has a search bar bearing the default phrase, “I’m searching for…” So when I went online a few days ago to look up the etymology of the […]
Is There Really Such Thing as a “Biblical Marriage?”
In my previous blog, I argued that the debate about same-sex marriage is not a secondary issue. To be clear, I didn’t thereby say that it’s necessarily a “gospel issue” (the phrase can be sloppy) or even a “primary issue,” since I don’t think primary and secondary categories are very helpful and I would rather […]