Evangelical Star Rob Bell Comes Out For Marriage Equality
The influential founder of Mars Hill says “the ship has sailed.”
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NC’s Gay Marriage Ban: “It’s Going to Hurt the Church”
The discussion surrounding NC’s Amendment 1 has taken the shape of a simplistic ideological battle over homosexuality and religion. “It’s as if some Christians feel like they have permission to discriminate or hate,” Jay Bakker told me. “And they get so obsessed with it that they ignore the fact that it would harm children, it would harm women, it would harm people in domestic partnerships. It’s like they’ve just become blind to that because they’ve built up such resentment towards gays and lesbians. And that’s really, really frightening to me.”
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Does Justin Bieber’s new Jesus tat mean it’s cool or coopted?
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Wild Goose Festival’s (Mostly) Welcoming Spirit for LGBT Christians
The first annual Wild Goose Festival, held in North Carolina at the end of June, was a snapshot of the state of the conversation regarding the status of LGBTQ folk in progressive Christianity.
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Jay Bakker on LGBT Justice and the Demands of Grace
Bakker on LGBT inclusion: “My goal is pure acceptance, not just tolerance. I think we’re on the verge of that. People are having conversations. I had someone ask me to listen to this sermon that was a thirty-minute apology, and then a ten-minute why it’s wrong to be gay. So, I’m starting to see these pastors apologizing for what they’re about to say. They seem to know, instinctively, that what they’re doing is wrong.”
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