William Stell is a gay pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Bordentown, NJ. He’s a writer for HuffPost and Patheos and has presented on “sexual ethics” at this year’s Q Christian Fellowship conference in Denver. He recently published his first year of sermons: Free, Clean and Loved: A Gay Pastor’s First Year in Sermons. When William […]
Jazz Fitzgerald was fired because her sexuality was viewed as a risk to students at her conservative Christian college
“I’m attracted to women,” Jazz Fitzgerald told a friend at their conservative Christian college. Jazz was forced into weekly therapy where her counselors probed to find the root cause of Jazz’s sexuality. She was told that she was broken and needed to be fixed. She could never know the fullness of God unless she had […]
Jason Galvez on the Value of Doing Things God’s Way by Just Living
Jason Galvez is a Christian, father, spouse, entertainer, and advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community. He was raised in a charismatic church, and two of his uncles (both pastors) tried to exorcise the “demons” that made him homosexual. For years, Jason tried to persuade his relatives to change their minds about the Bible by sending them […]
Southern Baptist Preacher Scott McQueen Finds Reasonable Doubt in the Bible About Homosexuality
For thirty-one years Scott McQueen was a Southern Baptist preacher. And as the parent of three boys, he was a “parrot” of the orthodox message about homosexuality. But on April 8, 2014, when his youngest son came out to him as gay, Scott’s life and his spiritual journey changed forever. He was no longer on […]
Nick Manchester and the Challenges of Being Intersex in an Adam and Eve World
GOD CREATED ADAM AND EVE BUT WHAT ABOUT INTERSEX? Nick Manchester is an intersex chimera who’s transgender, non-binary, gay and asexual. Doctors forced his parents to decide his gender when he was three days old, and they made the choice to raise him as a girl. But he never felt comfortable in that assigned gender. […]
Brian Peyton Joyner Talks Sexual Ethics for the Gay Christian
CAN A GAY MAN BASE HIS SEXUAL ETHICS ON THE BIBLE? Brian Peyton Joyner shares new insight from the Q Christian Fellowship conference about how we can use the Golden Rule to establish a new sexual ethics for the 21st century. It’s about shifting from a model based on boundaries to one based on values. […]
Jeff Ford Finds His True Self After 14 Years of Ex-Gay Therapy
Can you have a relationship with God if you believe that God condemns who you are? For twenty-four years, Jeff Ford was married to a woman, and they have three beautiful daughters. But along the way, Jeff had a secret. He was attracted to guys. Jeff’s conservative faith and love for his family motivated […]
Suzanne Dewitt Hall and the Transformational Power of Listening to God
IS YOUR FAITH STRONG ENOUGH TO ALLOW GOD TO SELECT THE PERSON YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE? AND BE WITH? Suzanne Dewitt Hall was a straight conservative Christian who once blogged about the evils of homosexuality. But then she met Diane. “It felt like the angel was at the door of the prison saying, ‘Come out. […]
Jackie McQueen and the Conflict between Love and Her Southern Baptist Faith
On this 15th episode, I talk to Jackie McQueen. She had been the wife of a Southern Baptist pastor for 30 years. And she firmly believed that being gay was a choice. But her world turned upside down on April 8, 2014, when she found out that her son was gay. For the past three and […]
Thomas Mark Zuniga Struggles with Same-Sex Attractions, Faith and Masculinity
On this 14th episode, I talk with Thomas Mark Zuniga. Tom is a Christian who has same-sex attractions, and his core belief is that the only kind of sex God blesses is marital sex between a man and a woman. But Tom has never tried to “pray away the gay.” Instead, he struggles to balance […]