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Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality is unavailable, but you can change that!

*Is there a place for celibate, gay Christians in the church? *How do the gospel, holiness, and indwelling sin play out in the life of a Christian experiencing same-sex attraction? And how do brothers and sisters in Christ show love to them? Wesley Hill offers wise counsel that is biblically faithful, theologically serious, and oriented to the life and practice of the church. As a celibate gay...

“So what would you have said to this woman?” I asked. “Well,” he paused. “I might have said something like this if I were counseling her: ‘The problem with your lesbian desires is not that you’re desperately craving human love (though we must not overlook even here the deceptive possibility of idolatry). The problem is that your good desire for human love is bent, broken—like all human desires to one degree or another. You need to be resocialized into the human community of the church. Your desire
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