Welcome to my blog. To find out more about me, please read the About Me page. I've started this as my small contribution to help bring about change, in the church and the wider communty, in particlular to bring inclusion and acceptance to our LGBTQIA+ community. Recently I had the privilege of someone saying to me I'm the first person that has ever come out to them as heterosexual cisgender. So in this blog I don't want to be speaking for the LGBTQIA+ community, you are more than capable to speak for yourselves, but as an ally and a parent, this is my contribution to bringing about positive and much needed change.
However, my blogs won't be limited to this topic, I will be talking about theology, the Bible and community in a wider sense, to provide my thoughts and ideas that have contributed to my journey, or have come out of this journey.
When writing it's really important to identify your audience. So my audience is primarily parents and pastors who are wrestling with this question, whose lived experience of either children or people they love coming out to them, and finding that these people don't meet the stereotypes presented by the wider church as the worst of sinners. That the lived experience doesn't match the theology. There is a term that describes this situation, and it is cognative dissonance.
So I welcome discussion from those who want to go on the journey. What is not welcome is, putting it bluntly, homophobic ranting. This is going to be a safe space and will be moderated so people can engage safely and not be subjected to abuse or hate. If you think this is loving please take your love elsewhere.