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Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Committed Christians may respond differently to gay and lesbian Christians. How can we engage those with whom we might disagree and navigate our journey together in a way that nurtures unity, hospitality, humility, and justice? Through her extensive experience in ministering to gay and lesbian Christians, Wendy VanderWal-Gritter has come to believe we need a new paradigm for how the church...

ministries began with the intention of offering a redemptive and caring response to Christians in conflict over their experience of same-sex-attraction or for those experiencing dissatisfaction with the behavioral or relational choices they were making. But some thirty years after ex-gay ministries began, I was now an insider within the system, and I could feel myself becoming agitated and unsettled and unable to continue with “business as usual.” Alan Roxburgh6 describes this kind of experience
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