by Tom Lambrecht | Mar 26, 2021 | Blog, Sexuality
Our church and our culture are divided. Same-sex marriage, gender identity, pornography, abortion, cohabitation, divorce. These and other “culture war” issues pose a challenge to Christians about how to understand and articulate biblical Christian values in a...
by Tom Lambrecht | Dec 18, 2020 | Blog, Sexuality
In late November, the Germany Central Conference and the Norway Annual Conference both took steps to reject United Methodism’s long-standing views on marriage and ordination by affirming the practice of homosexuality. These steps reflect the more progressive...
by Tom Lambrecht | Jul 13, 2020 | GC2020, Sexuality
The current focus of our denomination is rightly on how to do effective ministry in the midst of a pandemic and how to understand and address racism in our nation and in our church. For most of our pastors and leaders, there is not much bandwidth left to keep abreast...
by Tom Lambrecht | Oct 28, 2019 | Blog, GC2020, Sexuality
In conversations and emails, I have frequently heard frustration and confusion regarding the situation in The United Methodist Church. Perhaps a succinct overview of our conflict will be helpful to people who are lost in the details or new to engaging with it....
by Tom Lambrecht | Oct 14, 2019 | Blog, Sexuality
Over the last 20 years, I have witnessed friends and colleagues in other mainline denominations struggling with principled disagreements over the definition of marriage and the role of LGBTQ persons in the church. It was always clear to me that these other...
by Tom Lambrecht | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog, Sexuality
Every person is to be highly valued. That value makes it important to listen to every voice, whether critical or supportive, to discern which elements in what they say would be helpful in understanding their perspective and/or refining our own. That is why it is...
