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Understanding Celibate Partnerships and Committed Friendships

September 28, 2022

By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers.

Christians often think and talk about the...

Challenges Faced by Parents of LGBTQ Kids

September 6, 2022

Last summer, The Center took a survey of over 500 Christian parents who have LGBTQ+ or same-sex attracted kids. We wanted to better understand the challenges these parents were currently facing—...

Did Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Relationships Exist in Biblical Times? A Response to Matthew Vines

August 30, 2022

By Preston Sprinkle, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender

Matthew Vines from the Reformation Project has recently released a video series where he offers an...

Introducing Our New Director of Church and Ministry Relations!

July 26, 2022

By Preston Sprinkle, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender

I’m excited to announced that we just hired Lou Phillips as our new Director of Church and Ministry...

Rainbow Flags and Symbolic Ambiguity

July 21, 2022

By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers.

This is a blog post about rainbow...

Curiously Fluid Data on Sexual Fluidity

June 9, 2022

By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers.

Last month, I wrote a blog post discussing the...

Is Reintegrative Therapy Making People Straight?, Part 2

May 11, 2022

By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers.

In our last episode, I suggested that the ...

Is Reintegrative Therapy Making People Straight?, Part 1

May 4, 2022

By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers.

If you visit the website of the Reintegrative...

New Testament Gentiles and Gay Christians

April 22, 2022

The following post, written by Misty Irons, is adapted from her presentation at the Revoice conference on October 8, 2021. Because her argument offers fresh insight into much-debated questions...

Pros and Cons of Coming Out

February 22, 2022

By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers.

“Should I come out to the world as a celibate...

Disciple the Queer Generation

February 1, 2022

By Pieter Valk. Pieter is a speaker/author, Executive Director of Equip (equipyourcommunity.org), cofounder of the Nashville Family of Brothers (familyofbrothers.org), teacher/aspiring deacon in...

A Collab with Adele and Paul the Apostle

January 26, 2022

By Sam Wan. Sam is a local church pastor, a ministry worker in the space of sexuality and gender, and a board member for several disability ministries. He loves researching in practical theology,...