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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...

of orientation change but more the sense that, for those who wanted to follow Christ, an ex-gay life was possible. I also met ex-gays who were single. Some were open to a romantic relationship with someone of the opposite sex. Others, often those who had been engaged in the journey for some years, were quite honest about the reality of their ongoing same-sex attraction and had seemingly come to a place of peace with living a single life. These friends’ lives reinforced my convictions that heterosexual
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