Fall Shepherd Lecture
Saturday, October 17, 2015, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Saturday, October 17 Session
10:00 am - Noon
“LGBT Issues and The Church Today” Plus Q & A
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Saturday and Sunday October 17-18: Fall Sheppard Lecture
David Gushee, Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University, will be with us for our Fall Sheppard Lecture. Gushee served, for a time, as theologian-in-residence for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Gushee is the author or editor of 20 books, including The Sacredness of Human Life, and Kingdom Ethics, which was named a 2004 Christianity Today book of the year. As an activist, Gushee was the principal drafter of both the Evangelical Climate Initiative (2006) and the Evangelical Declaration against Torture (2007). Dr. Gushee’s release of the book Changing Our Mind added a new chapter to his scholarship and activism. In this book, Dr. Gushee makes a biblical case for all Christians to open their hearts to full acceptance and equality for gay Christians.
For any Christian, who has long desired for LGBT Christians to be treated equally and fully included in the community of faith, but has struggled with Christian tradition and the verses of the Bible that mention homosexuality, reading Changing Our Mind will be transformative.