Gushee: I believe the Holy Spirit sent to me gay and lesbian Christian brothers and sisters who became an important part of my life primarily at my local church. I’ve moved into a posture of passionate solidarity with these sufferers and these beloved children of God.Ĭan you say a little more about what it was that moved you from the sidelines into the midst of this debate? I tell the story of how I stood on the sidelines of the LGBT debate for 20 years while working on other issues to somebody who now sees the great harm that the traditionalist view and practices of the church have done to many, many, many thousands of young people and their families. The book is noteworthy because as an evangelical scholar I use an evangelical ethical framework to redefine the issue from being a sexual-ethic issue to being a human-dignity and Christian-community issue.
Why should people read yours?ĭavid Gushee: I hope people will read it because it narrates my journey-biblically, ethically, theologically, and interpersonally-from a kind of unthinking traditionalist position to a passionate plea for full equality of LGBT Christians in the church and society. Tim Otto: There is an onslaught of books right now about Christianity and same-sex relationships. He recently published Changing Our Mind: A call from America’s leading evangelical ethics scholar for full acceptance of LGBT Christians in the Church. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. It’s about human dignity and Christian communityĭr.
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