Month: July 2015

Here is Part 1 of the podcast I recently was on with Pastor Joshua Gagnon of Next Level Church. Josh was my pastor when I attended one of the Next Level locations when living in MA. While Josh is definitely more conservative than I am on LGBT issues, I have great respect for him and →

Originally posted on The Dispatch: By Christian Brown | July 22, 2015 Someone asked me last week if I regretted my decision to come out as a gay Christian. While my answer was “no,” I do mourn the fact that choosing to chronicle my 16-year journey of sexuality and faith has altered my life permanently.… →

So many people seem to live inside an echo chamber. You know, the kind of space where whatever we think-feel-believe is simply reinforced and made louder by all those we surround ourselves with who think-feel-believe the same way. And we tend to reinforce the echo-effect by watching the same pundits on TV and tuning out →

Originally posted on Julie Rodgers: I was a senior in high school the first time I shared my story on a stage. The ex-gay ministry I had been attending for 8 months asked if I would be willing to share about the Lord’s work in my life, and I was honored. That was the beginning… →

I was recently a guest on “The Marty Heiser Show” along with conservative lobbyist Peter Wolfgang of the Connecticut Family Institute, discussing marriage equality, religious freedom and other LGBT/church issues. This clip below picks up around 30 minutes into the show, when I join the conversation. Click here if you want to see the whole →

I haven’t written on this blog in a long time… but I think it is time. A lot of things have been happening over the past year or so and I now work pretty normal hours, so have time to think, write, process and engage in a little “autopsy” of self. So I hope there →