Check out Jane Halton’s interview with Wendy for YALT here. The Young Adult Leadership Taskforce (YALT) of the CRC creates space for the conversation between young adults, local churches and our denominations about where we go from here. YALT operates primarily in the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC)and the Reformed Church in America (RCA).…
Check out an article in geez about New Direction here. Here’s a bit about geez: We’ve set up camp in the outback of the spiritual commons. A bustling spot for the over-churched, out-churched, un-churched and maybe even the un-churchable. A location just beyond boring bitterness. A place for wannabe contemplatives, front-line world-changers and restless cranks. A place where…
Wendy was featured in an article in Maclean’s News Magazine. Read the full article here. (Full link: http://www.macleans.ca/authors/emma-teitel/quietly-ahead-of-the-gay-rights-curve/)
New Direction and Wendy were recently featured in Xtra, check out the article in it’s entirety here. (Full link: http://dailyxtra.com/canada/news/updating-dogma-51014)
Imagine a place of unconditional acceptance….. A place where everyone around you is willing to be a friend even if you don’t know them. Imagine a place where you know that you have something deeply personal in common with everyone around you, even if you have no clue who they are. Imagine a place where…
An interesting aspect of my work these days is the opportunity to have conversations with people who hold different perspectives on the question of whether a covenanted same-sex relationship is an appropriate life choice for a disciple of Jesus. In the early years, most of my conversations were with Christians who held to a traditional…
Campolo highlights questions youth are asking regarding gay issues in the church.
As I talk across Canada, sharing my passion for bridging the gap between the church and the LGBT community I have been surprised at how positively I have been received. There is a sense that the Church is ready to begin to face this issue, and many of the evangelical Christians I know have a…
When I go around to talk to youth groups I have learned over the years not to start with “Hi my name is Brian, and I’m gay!” The issue of homosexuality is one that Christians have learned to be defensive about and as soon as the hear “The G word” many of them put up…
While I was enjoying a relaxing long weekend camping with friends in the Catskills an unidentified person walked into a LGBT support group in Tel Aviv Israel and opened fire with an M-16. Two people were killed and 15 others wounded. I didn’t get the news until this morning when I sat down to my…