Well, maybe not…. The truth is, you’ll probably leave the “e3” conference with even more questions! That’s what happens when we begin studying something new – when we really start…
Here’s another inspiring post from Tyler Sparks, CenterPeace intern for the fall. Tyler is a graduate student in ministry from Abilene Christian University. “How do you picture God?” I can’t…
This semester we’re privileged to have Tyler Sparks, a graduate ministry student from Abilene Christian University, serving as our CenterPeace intern. Tyler moved to Dallas in August and has been…
One by one they started opening up to each other. Their stories had similarities. Yet each one was different. As the parents who had gathered in this living room began…
Jackie Robinson – a name that we instantly recognize as a national icon, symbolizing the beginning of an end to racial discrimination in professional baseball. But he didn’t make it…
A guest post from Jonathan Storment, preaching minister for the Highland Church of Christ in Abilene, TX….. “A person once asked me…if I approved of homosexuality,…
This morning I woke up in a resort just outside of Chaing Mai, Thailand. The last couple of days have been a blur as we traveled from Texas to San…
Seems like we hear too much in the news about how some group of people professing to be Christian has said something hateful about people who are gay. Most recently…
Hope you’ll join us tomorrow for a book signing at Mardel’s in Abilene! Sally will be reading stories from her new memoir, Loves God, Likes Girls, responding to questions from…
Here’s a guest post and book review from Jonathan Storment, pulpit minister of the Highland Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas. Check out Jonathan’s blog, Stormented. “Vulnerability…
Two CenterPeace events and another thousand miles on my car later, and I’m finally back to finishing our review of Wesley Hill’s Washed and Waiting! I hope you’ve enjoyed learning…
Wesley Hill’s depiction of loneliness in the second part of Washed and Waiting is, to me, the most powerful part of the book. And his call to the church to…
Thoughts from Part One of Wesley Hill’s Washed & Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality Like all of us who have wrestled with how to resolve questions about homosexuality…
Have you finished reading Wesley Hill’s Washed and Waiting? Haven’t started yet? Uh, don’t even have the book?! Well, there’s still time – our first post reviewing the book will…
Finding someone who’s safe to open up with usually begins long before you actually need to talk. I’ve made decisions about who to share the most intimate details of my…
For the past several months, posts on the CenterPeace blog have been sparse. There’s a reason for that…. Besides the fact that sometimes I just don’t do the things I…
Last week I heard one of the sweetest sounds I’ve heard in a long time. During their daily chapel assembly at a small Christian university in Tennessee, I shared my…
Ever have one of those moments where you read something you’ve read hundreds of times before, and all of a sudden you see something different? That’s how I felt this…
I don’t know Pastor Charles Worley from the Providence Road Baptist Church in North Carolina. And I probably wouldn’t have the opportunity to even know who he is, except that…
I’ve ‘listened’ to a lot of the conversations on Facebook, the blogs, the editorials written in response to the North Carolina election last week. And President Obama’s endorsement of marriage…
March 26, 2003. A day I won’t ever forget. The day my deepest darkest secrets came to light in a very public way. The day I shared that my family…
One of my favorite storytellers was a friend of my parents named Jake. From the outside Jake was a scrawny little guy, not very tall, but wiry with a wrinkled…
I’m a talker. They say I said my first words at nine months, saying “Hi!” to strangers in the grocery store. I gave my first speech at the age of…
The following post is reprinted with Richard Beck’s permission from his blog, Experimental Theology. If you haven’t visited his blog, you’ve missed something. Richard writes about things that matter. And just…
It was 1971 and I was ten years old the first time I ever heard a derogatory term used for someone who was homosexual. I didn’t even know what the…
The first time I ever heard anybody say anything about homosexuality I was probably seven or eight years old. It was the most beautiful wedding I’d ever seen. Granted, at…
Fifteen years ago this month I was halfway through law school. I had just started clerking at a firm part-time and was busy competing for Tech’s mock trial and moot…
My favorite Christmas present didn’t have to be unwrapped. It wasn’t left under the tree and I’m pretty sure the giver didn’t even realize what a gift it was. But…
The “e3” Conference is for parents who love a child who experiences same-sex attraction, to provide resources for equipping, encouraging, and empowering them to love their children unconditionally. Most importantly,…
Ever wish you could take a short course on Faith & Sexuality? Well, now’s your chance. But it’s better than that. Because this course won’t be taught by just one…
We’re only ten weeks away from CenterPeace’s “e3” Conference! If you’re still wondering whether or not you should come, here’s the first of the top ten reasons you need to…
Before we even got close to the room, I could smell the chili. The aroma filled the church building and it smelled divine. We’d been setting up my laptop for…
Today we celebrate the life of the man I wrote about in my spiritual memoir, Loves God, Likes Girls. I’ll forever be grateful for the ways God used David Lewis…
