How Did We Learn to Love Gay People So Quickly?

Christianity
Written By Derek Penwell

How Did We Learn to Love Gay People So Quickly?

 

"But there are some of us who’ve seen the new paradigm, a gestalt in which our view of the equality of our LGBT sisters and brothers isn’t an attempt to 'ignore the Bible,' but is itself a reordering of our relationship to the Bible in ways that seem more faithful to its true message about the wide embrace of God.

"We learned to love our LGBT sisters and brothers not because they needed to change, but because we did."

Derek Penwell

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.

https://derekpenwell.net
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