A Day Which Proved Love Wins

By author | July 6, 2015 |

Friday 26th June 2015. A day which will go down in history. A day which will become many LGBT couple’s wedding anniversary.

This was the day the US Supreme Court ruled that same sex marriage was a legal right across the US.

I can’t tell you the joy I felt, as a straight ally, as this news sunk in. The freedom this gave to so many. A right which had been denied for so long, finally made legal.

In some ways it’s tragic that we should celebrate this day with such enthusiasm – because this should never have been an issue up for discussion. Each of us should always have been free to make that covenant relationship of marriage with another. To commit to be faithful to someone before God for the rest of their lives.

But the reason this gave me so much hope, was simply because it proved again to me one simple thing.

Love wins.

Love always wins.

It sometimes takes patience. It sometimes takes sacrifice. It might meet resistance. It may have to battle it’s way through lots of boundaries.

But, in the end, love wins.

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Why Authenticity Can Require Sacrifice

By author | February 1, 2015 |

One thing which keeps me blogging is the opportunity to interact and build relationship with you, my readers. As regular readers will know, one thing I am passionate about is authenticity. For us all to be true to who we really are, to discover our true identity & calling.

Maybe it’s because of my own past – a victim of bullying, feeling an outsider, growing up in a broken home & losing my Mum relatively young, and being shy & introverted – but I’ve always felt a passion, a desire to speak out for minority groups. For those oppressed, rejected, outside, misunderstood, either by church or culture, or both.

For me to be true to who I am, to practice what I preach and be authentic in my writing, at least some of my writing is going to involve speak out for some of these groups. This is what’s led me to speak up & blog about gender equality in church. And it’s what’s now leading me to speak up on one of the most contentious issues in the Christian church today.

A topic which is divisive, and which makes this one of the bravest blog posts/series I’ve ever written.

Because the group I’m speaking out for is the LGBT community.

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