Christian leaders in countries where English is not as common have been adding editions in local languages. The book now is sold in many bookstores around the world, including by Walmart. If you prefer, Barnes & Noble sells hardcover, paperback and Nook versions. Gushee’s book is available in paperback, hardcover, Kindle and Audiobook versions via Amazon’s global network of websites. The simple answer is that I felt … Compelled, Responsible and FreeĬompelled: the “LGBTQ issue” kept coming at me, in my family, school, church, the lecture circuit, and public life, and I felt summoned finally to address it in a serious way. People often ask me what led me-a straight, married, Christian-to write when I did and how I did about LGBTQ inclusion. Longtime-readers of my columns for BNG will remember that COM began as a series of posts beginning in the summer of 2014. That’s why, this week, I have decided to write this column for Front Edge Publishing and Baptist News Global. All are welcome.I learned this week that sales of my 2014 book Changing Our Mind (COM) are just about to cross 25,000, apparently very rare in the book business. Later that night, at 7 p.m., Gushee will present at Elon Community Church, in the Family Life Center, on Changing Our Mind: My Journey as a Christian Ethicist toward Full LGBT Acceptance.īoth events are sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life the Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society and PFLAG Alamance. Bloesch’s research focuses on the intersections of Christianity and culture in the United States, exploring the interrelation between theology and theories of sexuality, race, and gender.
Sarah Bloesch, adjunct assistant professor of religious studies at Elon University, with questions and discussions from the audience. in Belk Pavilion 208, presenting Top 10 Reasons I Changed My Mind on Full LGBT Inclusion.įollowing his presentation, there will be a brief response from Dr. In addition to Changing Our Mind, Gushee has published 17 books, including Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust (1994), Kingdom Ethics (2003), and The Future of Faith in American Politics (2008).
Gushee will be presenting from his recent book, Changing Our Mind (2014), and sharing the theological, biblical, and ethical reflections that support his change of mind and heart on accepting LGBT persons. Gushee is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. Changing Our Mind: My Journey as a Christian Ethicist toward Full LGBT AcceptanceProfessor David Gushee will be speaking on April 16 about his journey as a Christian towards full LGBT acceptance.
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