Editor: I just wanted to tell you all that I have loved your site for about two years now! As a gay Christian, I find firsthand how heartbreaking it is when we are (either directly, or indirectly — which, to me, hurts worse) excluded because
News release MIAMI — An Easter weekend prayer vigil outside Coral Ridge Church by gay Christian activist, Richard Murphy, resulted in a meeting with Reverend D. James Kennedy, Leader of Coral Ridge Ministries in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Coral Ridge Ministries actively opposes gay civil right
News release A Seattle clergywoman is pursuing an assignment within the United Methodist Pacific Northwest Conference of Seattle, despite coming out officially as a lesbian. Karen Dammann, a United Methodist Church clergywoman since 1991, declared on March 25 that she intends to pursue a church
Spiritual abuse: What is it? A preacher, his face distorted with rage, shouts anti-gay slogans from his pulpit into a television camera. A mother quietly tells her son that he is no longer her son because he has just revealed that he is gay. She
I have, since 1996, lived in the Borough of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. A mainly working-class town, Wilkinsburg has a population that is about half African-American and half non-Hispanic Caucasian. In my four years in Wilkinsburg, I have discovered no evidence of any significant Latino population. Because
Being convinced that the Biblical intent for sexual behavior is loving fidelity within marriage and celibacy outside marriage, we intend to pursue a clear statement of policy on the part of the United Church of Canada declaring the unsuitability of self-declared practicing homosexual persons for
2 Tim 4: 6-8 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up
This May / June 2001 issue of standing firm is very important to me because I will be able to describe to you my experiences with gender dysphoria. It has caused me so much pain, as a distinct reminder of who I am and what
The older I get, and the more I live out the blessing of my sexuality, the more the incident of Jesus calling Peter to walk on the water to him comes to means to me. Amid a raging storm, and a supposed “apparition” of Jesus,
“What if they won’t ordain you?” “You could leave the Presbyterian Church [USA] . . . that is what people are doing in other churches and that’s leaving a shortage in qualified people for the ministry and that sends a message too.” Both of these