Changing Our Mind: A review and a plea
The following was originally posted on our church blog in 2014 . It has been edited slightly. Here I offer a review of David Gushee's book followed by a plea, which is directed to those who are LGBT, along with their families and their friends. A Review Gushee is not the first to change his mind on what he calls “the LGBT issue,” and he won’t be the last. The question is, does he have a case? Should the rest of the evangelical community follow suit? Is this a reformation worthy of our participation? Gushee has concluded it is, and he wants you to carefully reconsider what has been the Church’s consistent (and almost unanimous) teaching for 2000 years. In fact, his book comes as a plea to the broader community of which Gushee has long been a part. Should we listen to him? As I interact with his book I want to examine three of his arguments and show why his book – far from he...