Category: Ally Narrative
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Do No Harm as a Wesleyan Ethic for Inclusion
Exclusivist theology harms the LGBTQIA+ community; at minimum loving our neighbors means not harming them.
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An Embrace of Love
The loving embrace of a parent is critical to the journey of their child whose identity is on the other side.
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A Gay Daughter and her Pastor Father: An Interview
Estrangement hits home in a clash between understanding and dogma.
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The Earth Is Full Already!
Earth’s human population is growing at an alarming rate. Perhaps greater gender and sexual diversity is a natural response to overpopulation.
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The Gospel According to Footloose
A truly loving Nazarene ethic isn’t about purity or polity but it is about particularity. In every new age the Church of the Nazarene should be known as the people who make room for the marginalized in society and those people today are our LGBTQ family and friends.
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Love Does No Harm
Reading Romans 13 as a radical call to do no harm as the holiest way of loving our neighbor.
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Open and Affirming or Closed and Condemning?
I don’t think the Nazarene church can become LGBTQ+ affirming fully. It takes a theology that sees inclusivity as a prerequisite to the mission.
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An Open Letter to the Church of the Nazarene My Denominational “Mama”
In this parable of an open letter, I use an analogy to imagine the Church of the Nazarene as “Mama”—the denominational mother who nourished, loved, educated and blessed me into my adult life. She is also the “Mama” I have had to disassociate myself from in my personal pursuit of the practice faith and vocational…
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Please Just Love
The failure of the Christian church to place radical love above doctrine, radical acceptance above condemnation, and radical hospitality above exclusion is causing spiritual harm and agony in the lives of LGBTQIA+ believers.
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“But the Bible Says” Is Not Enough
When the Church of the Nazarene returns to its Wesleyan roots, it will move toward full LGBTQ+ inclusion.