“The writing is engaging in this memoir that addresses and softens more conservative evangelicals’ opposition to Homosexuality.”
“I go to church every week but I sit there in fear, if they only knew who I really was….”
“I was brought up going to church, my family of faith made it clear I didn’t belong. I will never go back there again.”
“I so want to be a part of a faith community but being gay and fearing rejection keeps me isolated longing for fellowship.”
The box contains the errant thoughts and prejudices of five centuries, permitting church leaders and members to ostracize, demean, and criminalize their own. This box must be opened, the contents examined, and its errant beliefs changed so more pain is not inflicted on Gay Christians in the future. When the Christian community begins to understand what the scriptures truly say only then will the Gay Christian be fully welcomed as part of the family of faith. It is time for the church to extend grace to the gay community, the same grace God freely gives to all.
The Peace Seeker is a groundbreaking vivid memoir of growing up as a gay Christian during the last several decades. The book chronicles the author’s journey toward self-acceptance of her sexual orientation and then her pursuit…
Learn MoreSusan E. Gilmore is an activist, businesswoman, and Christian church worker who graduated from bible college in the early 1980s with a degree in biblical studies. At that time, she planned a career in Christian work but subsequently…
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I really must change my homepage at work. Those scrolling news articles are too much for me to overlook. One inevitably grabs my attention and I just have to click to see more of what it is really all about. Recently an article in the New York Times about the Catholic Synod caught my attention. Pope Francis in his usual fashion of shaking things up at the Vatican had really freaked some cardinals out with statements regarding divorced individuals and homosexuals. He stated that the catholic church should be more compassionate to individuals in those lifestyles. The cardinals in turn either sided with the pope or stood firm in outrage holding fast to the church doctrine that those who were divorced were committing adultery and that gays were an abomination. I continued on finishing the article and pretty much realized that nothing on either subject was going to change any time soon, but that I was glad they were at least broaching the subject. Since I read the article on line there was a section beneath for comments. Yes, I am still at work, but I could not help myself from reading on. The comments shook down to four types. People who were pontificating, while really having no clue what they were saying. People that did seem to know what they were talking about. People that were trying to learn something and people who were down right nasty. I am not sure who has time for all this commenting but someone was saying something so horrendous to another human being that I could not keep my mouth shut. I...
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