#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality
The massacre of 49 individuals in an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12 has ignited…
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The United Methodist Church to LGBTQ: You’re “Sacred,” But Not Welcome
The month of May has marked a decided shift in the strategy for full inclusion…
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Nadia Bolz-Weber on Becoming ‘God’s Bitch’
“The book is vulnerable, to have all these stories about myself and these truths about myself out there. It’s not like the book is going to impress anyone—nobody’s going to say, ‘Wow, Nadia Bolz-Weber is a fucking spiritual giant.'”
Read MoreGod at the Gay Pride Parade
As LGBT Pride Month gets under way, more religious groups are joining the celebration.
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A Reforming Tradition Struggles With Change
For progressives in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the wider Christian church and society at large, the vote was a thrilling victory after decades of struggle and setback. For conservatives, the vote signaled a decisive break with scripture and tradition and called the orthodoxy and orthopraxy of the this denomination into question. Almost one year later, we can take a step back to consider what happened in Minneapolis and to map some of the trajectories of this historic vote.
Read MoreELCA Removes All Barriers to Gay Inclusion
LGBT candidates can now be ordained.
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On the ELCA’s Historic Shift to Include Gay Clergy: Reflections of a Self-Exiled Lutheran
Reflecting with mixed emotions his decision to leave the church of his childhood over its inability to accept gays, the author recalls his own words, that “Scripture calls us to look beyond Scripture, to God and to our neighbor,” and wonders whether he should return to the church; indeed, whether such a thing is possible.
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