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talking dog gay christian resources talking dog gay christian resources home helpful resources helpful books when someone comes out in your church when you want to come out to your church talking dog blog can i be gay and christian about me letter i sent to my home church rbc my testimony as sent to my home church rbc letter i sent the board members of the canadian baptists of western canada to sixteen churches of the cbwc letter from birmingham jail when i came out to my church my statements of belief rss feed welcome note this website was started in 2009 and some material here is a bit dated references to the lgbtq community may be old and links may not work i stopped working on this website in 2016 so many advancements for the lgbtq community as well as many new supportive denominations and churches as well as steps toward a more considered approach to the queer community by some denominations are not mentioned here these are not left out on purpose but only because the website is in need of a wholesale update however my convictions about the church s need to recognize and support the lgbtq community especially in a time members of the trans community in particular are being attacked and harmful legislation is being passed they still stand this website also serves as a record for my own personal coming out experience at my former church and still has some useful suggestions i think for congregations and individuals in situations where coming out to their church is something they want to do given some time i hope to update these links and write some new posts until then i hope you see this website as a picture of a time between 2009 2016 hopefully one day soon we won t need websites like these because institutions of faith will no longer concern themselves with judging someone s gender or sexuality wrong or sinful but will understand how important queer people people of every gender are to the work of love in this world until then i hope you can still find something helpful here for yourself and or your community you are loved jerome stueart december 2023 _______________________________________ this website is offered as a resource for congregations and individuals who want a christian understanding of lgbtq folks and their involvement with the church many many denominations have studied the scripture and come up with an interpretation that keeps all of their theology intact but which accepts and affirms lgbtq people as full members of the church i offer you a place to look up those sources many other websites do this and do it better so i link to those i m just acting as a doorway to get from where you are to where you want to be we are all asked by god to be responsible for the knowledge that we have for the bible that we read and for the message we pass on to others in god s name many people have been convicted that the message we send members of the queer community that they are involved in sinful lifestyles is just wrong and harmful the people linked to this site both scholars and lay people have searched the scriptures prayed for god s guidance and written their results in books websites letters and made dvds and other resources we can build on each others knowledge by sharing it and by testing it as we re asked to do in scripture and then if it is right by bringing it to our church for consideration by other members i hope you find this information helpful why talking dog this page has a peculiar pedigree i wrote a story for anti homophobia week in a contest the story is short only 500 words and follows a man into the woods on a cold yukon evening where he hopes to quietly kill himself he brings his black lab with him and through strange and divine circumstances the dog talks and convinces him to come home i didn t mean for it to be published widely but there it was in the local paper here s the entire story sometimes we make accidental stands and they lead to more purposeful ones my point in the story though was to say that the only way as an author i could save this man s life was if i made the dog talk which was heavy handed and not very realistic in real life i wished that we would all become the talking dogs that would save people s lives we have to actively reach out and reverse the church s long poisoning of gay people this poisoning leads to suicide but it more often leads gay people into forced heterosexual marriages and not very good ones at that that lead to divorce it also leads to people leaving the church and god it leads to hopelessness and despair these are not the goals of the good news i created talking dog as a portal towards resources a way to bring back the good news with resources we can seek out the right answers to these questions and help many people who are hurting queer and trans people their families and the rest of the christian community share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted november 12 2010 by jstueart recent barks the book of birmingham adding martin luther king jr s letter from a birmingham jail to the bible scenes from stalled marriages free writing workshop justice event writing the lgbt spiritual journey saturday april 5 fountain street church grand rapids mi how anne lamott saved my life the mercy of traveling mercies gays will save the church my story in the queer story archives christian parents who tried to love their gay son the way the church taught them to sunday in the court of religion after the death of doma and prop 8 marketing masculine stereotypes for father s day can you be gay and christian oh yeah why it s important for a catholic high school to have a gay straight alliance the gospel of intolerance from the new york times walk out of non affirming churches cbc s dnto to air my story on coming out to my church for lost causes nov 3 if you come here from geez 27 where i have two memoir pieces how do i save my daughter from a lesbian friend my papers helpful resources helpful books when someone comes out in your church when you want to come out to your church talking dog blog can i be gay and christian about me to sixteen churches of the cbwc letter from birmingham jail when i came out to my church my statements of belief adoptions enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address sign me up join 31 other subscribers all the things we talk about here affirming alberta baptist bible bisexual bulletproof faith bullying california calvin college celibacy celibate ceo christian christianity christians church churches clive baptist church college coming out corvino denomination esther faith festival of faith and writing first baptist first baptist church gay 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