"Following Jesus, loving those whom Jesus loves, requires us to figure out not who it is ok to walk past, but how we are to manage the often difficult task of applying the bandages of healing to those whose wounds we often fail to understand." Derek Penwell on My Neighbor: Thoughts on the LGBTQ Debate — [D]mergent http://ow.ly/j9Aoo
Author, Speaker, Pastor, Activist. Derek Penwell is senior pastor of Douglass Boulevard Christian Church, and a lecturer at the University of Louisville in Religious Studies and Comparative Humanities. His newest book, Outlandish, focuses on understanding the political nature of Jesus’ life as a model for forming communities of resistance capable of challenging oppression in the pursuit of peace and justice.
He is an activist and advocate on local, state, and national levels on issues of racial justice, LGBTQ fairness, interfaith engagement, and immigrant and refugee rights.
