The latest issue of TIME hits newsstands tomorrow, and I am honored to be featured in it along with a number of friends and colleagues working toward LGBT inclusion in the church. You have to be a magazine subscriber to read the full article -- which is definitely worth reading -- but heres a brief excerpt: The generational shift is easy to spot elsewhere. Consider the Reformation Project, a Wichita, Kans.–based effort by 24-year-old gay evangelical activist Matthew Vines to raise up LGBT-affirming voices in every evangelical church in the country. To reach that goal, he is training reformers in batches of 40 to 50 at regional leadership workshops who can go back to their home churches and serve as advocates for LGBT inclusion. The Reformation Project has staffers in three states, representatives in 25 more and plans for a presence in all 50 states by 2018. The LGBT issue has been one of the most obvious forces behind the increasing loss of regard for Christianity in American culture at large, Vines says. It’s like slavery and anti-Semitism, where the tradition got it totally wrong. It’s one of the church’s profound moral failures.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:44:29 +0000
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