by Emily Wierenga | Aug 30, 2013 | amy hollinsworth, anorexia, book giveaway, Christ, closet, gay, homosexuality, letters from the closet, new creation, starving
When Amy Hollingsworth, a Christian author known for her work surrounding Mister Rogers, approached me about doing a giveaway of her new book, Letters from the Closet: Ten Years of Correspondence that Changed My Life, she told me that Christians were refusing to help... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 19, 2013 | Boy Scout, celibacy, christian, church, community, faith, forgiveness, gay, grace, homosexual, LGBTQ, love, orientation, Pope Francis, sexual, sin
PLEASE NOTE: I wrote this post primarily for those within the church while still acknowledging the need to continue to grow in our capacity to love and dialogue with gay people outside of the church. I have spent the past month writing this post in cooperation with a... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 16, 2013 | boy scouts, church, deleting, faith, gay, letter, love
I chose this morning to delete my letter to the Boy Scouts and to the Church.Friends, my intention in writing the letter that I did was to speak the truth in love to the LGBTQ community, but many did not feel it was loving. So I decided to take it down out of respect...