I realize my last post on the topic (Washcloth Pink) stirred up some good (and not so good) conversation. I thought I would add another voice to this topic. Jeremy over at Novus Lumen wrote a post some time ago reflecting on gay Christians in West Michigan (Click here). Here is a snippet:

But again, that really wasn’t the point of the play. The point was to tell the stories of gay Christians, how they realized that a piece of them was different, their wrestlings with that piece, and the reaction from their familial and faith communities. The mantra “Tell me your story” was their final plea and summation. They urged us to sit-down, shut-up and listen to the stories of followers of Jesus who are trying to reconcile an undeniable piece of them with the Way of Jesus, a reconciliation they admit may be wrong and flawed.

At one point one of the actresses said, “What if we’re wrong and the conservative position is right?”

Now there is naked, honest vulnerability! But here’s the thing: Is the Church (particularly the conservative evangelical kind) willing to make the same statement? Is the Church willing to say, “might we have our understanding of homosexuality all wrong?”

It’s only in the midst of relationships, with the Textual Story and the stories of gay Christians, that we will ever be able to answer both questions well and truthfully.

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