Matthias Roberts – Leading Conversations on LGBT Christianity

“You can’t be hurt by a faceless, nameless institution. You were hurt by people. You can only truly begin to forgive when you have names and faces.”
-Rob Bell
In my conversation with Rob Bell last week, he brought up that often we blame “the church” for our pain instead of the actual people who have hurt us. He contends that once we are able to become more specific with who caused the pain, more healing will...

If y’all want to see what happens when I get starstruck, this video is for you.
Rob Bell is someone I’ve looked up to for quite a while. He was one of the first evangelical leaders to come out in full support of LGBT people. As he has moved out of the strict role of a pastor and into being a pastor to so many people in his weekly...

I’ve been a big fan of Julie Rodgers for a couple years. Her blog posts are insightful and she’s always seemed like a beautifully genuine person. When Wheaton College hired her as a chaplain, many of us in the LGBT Christian world celebrated. Here’s...

“This is the generation that will define what it means to be gay in church.” I stood in the corner of a small living room that was packed full of people for a conversation with theologian James Alison.
This is probably a terrible thing to admit, but when we read pieces about atonement theory by Alison in some of my graduate classes, I thought he was one of the old guys that I had never heard of (read that as: dead). Turns out, (surprise!), he’s not...