I hope for a future where the church is more inclusive, queer Christians are still on fire for the Gospel, and we choose to fight to improve imperfect institutions rather than abandon them — even when they oppress us. I’m willing to do this even
It’s Sunday morning in the Waterloo, Ont., Christian Reformed Church. A lone microphone is standing at the front of the sanctuary and during prayer requests an elderly man in his sixties walks up to it and shyly clears his throat. His shoulders are stooped slightly
The Good Book Peter Gomes is minister of The Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard. He is also a black Republican who is openly gay. In his new book on Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart entitled The Good Book,
In olden days — not so very olden either — this practice was painted as the blackest of all possible sins. Anyone who practiced it was pretty sure of hell. Our grandfathers, including our medical grandfathers, if they did not avoid all reference to it,