This last weekend I attend the Gay Christian Network (GCN) Conference. It was my first time attendg anythg associated wh GCN. I was one of the ~600 brand new atten as the nference has grown om ~700 2014 to ~1300 2015. Below I will offer my thoughts, reflectns, and mentary. I will close this post…
Contents:
- 2015 GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE – INTRODUCTN
- THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE: A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
- SURPRISE! A CONFERENCE FOR GAY CHRISTIANS HAS SPARKED CONTROVERSY
- THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE, 2015 | REFLECTNS & OPEN LETTER
2015 GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE – INTRODUCTN
The gay dilemma is arguably the most prsg cultural issue facg the church. So, didn't surprise me that the issue took center stage at last week's Q Conference Boston, which gathers 1,300 top Christian lears to discs cultural issu. * gay christian conference 2015 *
"The gay dilemma is arguably the most prsg cultural issue facg the church. "Hirsch's talk was the first of three talks on Thursday that specifilly addrsed sexualy and/or homosexualy. Instead, what followed was a discsn on the "The Church's Gay Dilemma" between Matthew V and Julie Rodgers.
V is the thor of God and the Gay Christian and founr of the Reformatn Project, which seeks to tra Christians to support and affirm LGTBQ people. Rodgers is a gay, celibate Christian whose hirg to work the chapla's office at Wheaton College last year sparked ntroversy. " As rult, their seemgly wholale nmnatn of homosexualy needs to be re-terpreted as only nmng homosexual sex outsi of mted monogamo relatnships.
Rodgers, though she intifi as gay, disagreed wh V and affirmed the sexual boundari exprsed Scripture as good: "I jt tst that the boundari God put around sexualy are for our flourishg. Gays, who knew? '" eliced a big lgh om the the discsn was posive, clearly assumed that "gayns" was beyond the spe of remptn: celibacy was offered as the only reasonable optn for people wh same-sex attractn who wanted to honor a tradnal Christian sexual ethic.
THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE: A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
An x of posts relatg to the 2015 Gay Christian Network nference on Christian Femism Today. CFT will be verg the nference. * gay christian conference 2015 *
He then referenced Alan Chambers, the former print of the now-shuttered ex-gay mistry Exod Internatnal. Another 30% reported they were able to live chastely and had "disintified" themselv om homosexual orientatn.
Unfortunately, this view that homosexualy is an immutable tra was aga prented the next Q talk on sexualy – a discsn between ethicist David Ghee and Pastor Dan Kimball on whether the church's historic teachg on sexualy is reliable. But, Ghee asserted that Christians have been "wrong on (the gay issue) as we have been wrong on some issu the past.
SURPRISE! A CONFERENCE FOR GAY CHRISTIANS HAS SPARKED CONTROVERSY
"Then Ghee alleged that nmnatn of homosexualy "creat a disastro box, " which gays "nnot pe. Disver what mak the Gay Christian Network Conference the world’s largt, most celebrated, and most affordable annual LGBT Christian event. The Wall of Love at the Gay Christian Network Conference (on the Patheos Emergg Voic blog).
The Gay Christian Network Conference: The Kgdom of God Unfoldg (gut post by Marcy Ba). Christian Femism Today attend the 2015 Gay Christian Network nference, “Together At the Table” Portland, Oregon. In Portland, hundreds of Christians who intify as eher lbian, gay, bi, trans*, tersex, queer, qutng, or supportg (alli) were attendance.
THE GAY CHRISTIAN NETWORK CONFERENCE, 2015 | REFLECTNS & OPEN LETTER
A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage Search of God Ameri (I reviewed his book here); Danny Cortez, Southern Baptist pastor and father of a gay child; and Wendy Grter, thor of Genero Spacns: Rpondg to Gay Christians the Church and Executive Director of New Directn Mistri of Canada.