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Smashing Our Idols: A Response from Evangelical Leader David Gushee

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…hough imperfect, is a sign of progress, not regress. What may feel like “unwelcome” to me, or a slight to me, may simply be the best effort that the church and its members, like Gushee, can make right now. Whenever we find ourselves as the one being oppressed, it may feel like a personal attack or insult to feel conditionally welcomed, but we must give people time and space to come to the side of full equality. Those who are making an honest effor…

Marriage Vote ‘Transforms’ Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM – ‘Love Is Not Terrorism’; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…losophy, is co-founder of a blog called Spiritual Friendship that seeks to promote celibacy as an admirable option for gay Christians. He said he believes that a majority of U.S. Catholics now support same-sex marriage, which became legal in all 50 states under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June. Mr. Belgau doesn’t expect the church to change its teaching, but suggests that there might be ways to make gay couples feel more welcome — comparable to…

Exodus “Ex-Gay” Ministry Closes Up Shop

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…for what they are and in no way squander. Secondly, even though the son is welcomed back, no questions asked, it’s understood that he’s not going to go out and do it again. The message to LGBT people is clear: you’re welcome and forgiven, but going back to that “lifestyle” is forbidden. I hope my reservations are unfounded, because so much is at stake in this move. If time reveals this new organization to be nothing more than a shuffling of the T…

Church Synod Recap: Micromanaging the Morals of Others

By Mary E. Hunt

…loving people. Such efforts to micromanage the morals of others find scant welcome in contemporary society. The voting men were ostensibly horrified by the notion that same-sex couples might have any redeeming features, or that there might be “charity in its caring…” rather than “weakening of its faith…” (par. 46 of the early draft) if divorced and remarried people receive communion. Dear God, what crumbs they quibble over and fall on their crozie…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…odel it”, Tracy Robinson added. Catholic Church: Bishop Says Church Should Welcome ‘Unconventional Couples’ The Religion News Service’s Josephine Mckenna reported last week that Bishop Nunzio Galantino, leader of the Italian Bishops Conference and an ally of Pope Francis, said the church should welcome “unconventional couples” who are in “irregular matrimonial situations.” He said, “The burden of exclusion from the sacraments is an unjustified pri…

(Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ould we wear robes? Should women be allowed in the pulpit? Do we affirm or welcome LGBT people? How do we take the sacraments? Do we believe in this version of the Bible? Enough! Can we connect as God’s creation and worship him whether we’re of the same political affiliation or social agenda or you name it. What Leslie and I found is that yes, absolutely we can do that. We have found it to be life-giving when we’re focused on the main thing and no…

Historian Matthew Stewart Upends the Widespread Belief that 19th Century U.S. Christianity Was On ‘The Right Side of History’

By Peter Laarman

…US Christianity as a whole, at one point exclaiming: “Welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! In preference to the gospel as preached by these divines!” Douglass’s journey into freethinking was greatly abetted by his German-born collaborator and paramour, Ottilie Assing, who introduced him to the work of notorious infidels Ludwig Feuerbach and David Friedrich Strauss. In later years Douglass kept busts of these radical thinkers pro…

A Reply to Pastor Rod Parsley on the Bible and the Death Penalty

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ogether. Rod Parsley represents one of those Christian leaders with whom I welcome further conversation. Let me initiate that by replying briefly to one of his central contentions. He worries that I have suggested that the Bible condemns the death penalty. I certainly said no such thing, and am well aware of those passages in the Hebrew Bible that mandate the ultimate penalty. I am also acutely aware of the brutal requirements of herem, or holy wa…

Correction: The SBC Does NOT Oppose Women’s Ordination… Just Women Pastors

By Caroline Matas

…sgender puts them outside of God’s design for human flourishing. But we do welcome LGBTQ people into our church, such churches might proclaim… as long as they’re receptive to the biblical truth that their lifestyle is sinful and requires repentance in order to be within the bounds of God’s moral law! Ah, but see, what we have here is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the word “welcome” means. Of course, quibbling over definitions might be fut…

Bishops More Welcoming To LGBT, But Not to Women

By Patricia Miller

…lesbian relations “morally acceptable.” The new language is nonetheless a welcome change for LGBT Catholics, who obviously weren’t thrilled at being referred to as “intrinsically disordered,” though that does remain the official doctrine of the church. “That positive language is more affirming and will give many people hope. It is much more respectful, and offers a sense of welcome that LGBT people have been seeking for decades,” said Marianne Du…