[CONVERSATION] 2023 Creating Safe Spaces For LGBTQ+ People Panel

Earlier this month, we hosted a night for members of SBCC and the broader community who want to learn more about creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people. The event featured a panel of SBCC members telling their stories as LGBTQ+ people and followers of Jesus, and as a parent to a gay son, navigating the complicated and often painful experiences of exclusion and harm in religious communities, and the ways their faith has sustained them. The panel also responded to questions from those in attendance. Want to know more about historic and progressive understandings of sexuality, the Bible, and Christian theology? Check out these reads: Historic View: Washed and Waiting, by Wesley Hill People to Be Loved, by Preston Sprinkle What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality? by Kevin DeYoung Progressive View: God and the Gay Christian, by Matthew Vines Changing Our Mind, by David Gushee Bible, Gender, Sexuality, by James Brownson