Leaders of College Park Baptist Church thought it was odd when the Southern Baptist Convention recently sent queries about the congregation s LGBTQ-affirming ministry. The church itself had voted to leave
When her teenage daughter came out as a lesbian several years ago, one of the first things Caroline Joyce did was to Google, “Can you be gay and be a Christian?” The family was attending a conservative Southern Baptist church in the Greensboro, North Carolina, area that considered homosexual activity to be sinful. “We had been taught one thing, but we knew our daughter loved Jesus,” Joyce said. “She was very open with us during her struggle to figure out what was going on with her.” And Caroline and her husband, Chuck, began their own struggle.
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