Thanks for this, Fred. I too have gained so much more than I’ve lost, as a pastor and human, by engaging my doubts about the church’s traditional stance towards LGBTQ+ folk. I know people who stay in nonaffirming spaces despite affirming alternatives, including queer folk, for reasons I respect, like truly trying to be change agents. And I know more who seem to stay for, as you say, the comforts of a well-funded, well-established church and friend group. Littles churches like the one I co-pastor can’t offer fancy - we can offer a sense of moral congruity and wholeness, our inner and outer worlds shifting into better alignment!
Thanks for this, Fred. I too have gained so much more than I’ve lost, as a pastor and human, by engaging my doubts about the church’s traditional stance towards LGBTQ+ folk. I know people who stay in nonaffirming spaces despite affirming alternatives, including queer folk, for reasons I respect, like truly trying to be change agents. And I know more who seem to stay for, as you say, the comforts of a well-funded, well-established church and friend group. Littles churches like the one I co-pastor can’t offer fancy - we can offer a sense of moral congruity and wholeness, our inner and outer worlds shifting into better alignment!
Thanks Fred. I appreciate the numbers. Helpful. I appreciate your advocacy of behalf of the Queer community.
Amen, thanks for this Fred!
"Change without a clock becomes complicity." Well said!