Archive | October, 2011

Come to the Gay Christian Network Conference in Orlando, January 5-8

Tweet The Gay Christian Network (GCN) holds an annual conference each January as part of its mission to share the love and light of Christ.  GCN was started in August 2001 by Justin Lee , recently named one of the 15 most inspiring LGBT religious leaders and author of the upcoming “Torn: Rescuing the Gospel [...]

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Listening to Michael Brown and Scott Lively | Where Do You Fit in the Dialogue?

Tweet Michael Brown, “Line of Fire” Michael Brown interviewed Scott Lively on Brown’s daily radio show “The Line of Fire,” October 19th .  Lively, President of Defend the Family, is one of the more prominent staunchly anti-gay activists in the world and Brown, founder of Coalition of Conscience, is quickly gaining status in the US for his similar views. [...]

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Becoming Christian Allies for the LGBT Community

Tweet   In the past decade, I have gone from  being a comfortable friend of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community (LGBT) to becoming a visible advocate. The gay community I had been warned about was not the gay community I came to know; the exclusionary practices of the Christian church were unsettling to the sense of [...]

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A Game of Peek-a-Boo with Linda Harvey

Tweet Everyone has played the delightfully amusing game of peek-a-boo with a small child.  When their eyes are covered, it does not matter if the child’s heads, shoulders, knees and toes are showing; they are no longer visible to you, and you are no longer visible to them. This is how young children, about two [...]

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