healing and reconciliation are not only what we offer to the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered person who walks through the doors of our faith community, but ultimately they are the gifts we give ourselves. By enlarging our embrace, we enlarge our own capacity to be embraced by the passionate love and holy presence of God among us. By being a voice of reconciliation to others, God’s voice calls those alienated places within us to new and uncharted levels of reconciliation. By being a hand of healing to another, God touches the hidden places within us that yearn desperately for healing. We all need to be recipients of healing and reconciliation, not because we are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or straight, but because we are human.

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This seems a reasonable question for any gay or lesbian Christian to ask, particularly when so many within the Christian church have said and done all they can to let GLBTQ people know just how unwelcome and unwanted they are, unless of course, they consent to denying or repenting of their sexual orientation…
…and certainly I’m [...]

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Divorce and Remarriage Within the Church
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Tom was a great guy, a man with a strong Christian faith and a genuine passion for entering the ministry. He was there every Sunday, playing the organ or piano, leading the choir, teaching the kids. The problem was the church didn’t consider Tom suitable for ordained ministry because [...]

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