My name is Ken. I was raised conservative Church of God and I have been taught my whole life that homosexuality is a sin. I began my coming out journey about five years ago when I was fifteen. Now I am in a committed relationship with a guy who was raised the same way I […]
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Rev. Paul M. Turner and the congregation of Atlanta’s Gentle Spirit Christian Church offer a prayer for those affected by the tragedies in Dallas, Minnesota, Baton Rouge and Orlando.
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I am gay, and 20 years old… I honestly can say that I am not happy. I don’t feel like I’m doing well at being a Christian. I try to pray but I am inconsistent, and sometimes I have no clue where I will end up. I feel like God is in some way absent
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In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King Jr.) In the days following the Orlando massacre, it’s become painfully clear to me that there are people out there who really don’t get it. They really don’t. They don’t get that LGBT people like
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A conversation between Rev. Paul M. Turner and Vicar Alyce Keener of Atlanta’s Gentle Spirit Christian Church on the subject of a Christian and LGBT response to the tragedy in Orlando.
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I thought I’d sit down today and get indignant about the crass politicization of a complete non-issue. No, I’m not talking about Benghazi, or private email servers, or whether or not Donald Trump actually knows how to run a business. I’m talking about something that actually has everyday people acting as though they’ve lost their
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Our tradition of fasting and praying from Good Friday to Easter Sunday began in 2006. At that time, we felt keenly that our church was at a crossroads, and we found ourselves turning to God for answers about our future direction as a congregation. We prayed and were led to the following key conclusions that
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As we enter a new year, I’m going to go out on a not-very-long limb and declare 2016 the Year of the Displaced. I do this to call attention to the fact that “one out of every 122 people alive today is someone who, at some point, was forced to leave his or her home“.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The well-known first paragraph of the preamble of the Declaration of Independence is an absolute revelation of both human rights
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