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Review 'The topic of LGBTQ inclusion is among the most debated and, sadly, most divisive religious issues today. Why Churches Need to Talk About Sexuality is a helpful guide to understanding what's at stake, why it matters, and how churches' unwillingness to discuss this topic has harmed countless marginalized people. Mark Wingfield writes with both a reporter's curiosity and a preacher's clarity, and the result is a helpful roadmap for navigating a conversation that Christians can no longer avoid. Readers on both sides of this contentious issue will find space to wrestle in the pages of this book.' --Jonathan Merritt, contributing writer for The Atlantic; author of Learning to Speak God from Scratch 'Why Churches Need to Talk about Sexuality is the guidebook so many church leaders and congregations have been waiting for. Navigating the conversation about LGBTQ inclusion can be daunting, especially in the face of significant disagreement. The hard-won wisdom Mark Wingfield shares here will be invaluable for all those seeking to help their churches become more inclusive and affirming of LGBTQ Christians.' --Matthew Vines, executive director of The Reformation Project; author of God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationship 'Mark Wingfield is a Baptist pastor with a heart for everybody. As a person of faith serving as a senior pastor, a man who happens to be married to a man, I welcome this book as it seeks to inform, engage, and encourage all readers, but most especially persons of faith who sincerely want to learn more about the LGBTQ members of their communities, in an important conversation about the church and sexuality. In this book, Wingfield inspires faith, hope, and love. And, yes, as you will soon read, the greatest of these is love!' --Neil Cazares-Thomas, senior pastor at Cathedral of Hope United Church of Christ in Dallas 'How we welcome and love all of God's children is the most vital issue facing the church today, and Mark Wingfield writes about it beautifully, passionately, and thoughtfully. Why Churches Need to Talk about Sexuality is an essential book for anyone hoping to move their church and their faith to what comes next.' --Greg Garrett, author of My Church Is Not Dying 'This book is the beacon of light that churches all over America need to help them address the topic of LGBTQ inclusion in faith spaces. With transparency, practicality, deep wisdom, and without bias, Wingfield gently teaches how to navigate this inevitable conversation. This long-awaited resource is one I will be recommending often.' --Amber Cantorna, national speaker; author of Unashamed and Refocusing My Family'This is our story, our church's journey toward full inclusion of all LGBTQ Christians in the life of our faith community. It's a hard story, but good. Good things are often hard. But the way of Christ leads to a larger table where there is always room for more. Mark Wingfield's book is a testimony and testament to the joy that comes to a people when whosoever will may come really means everybody.' --George A. Mason, senior pastor, Wilshire Baptist Church 'Why Christians Need to Talk about Sexuality is the honest and compelling story of one church's journey toward greater inclusion for LGBTQ individuals and families. Any mainline church thinking about moving through a process of discernment will be helped by reading about the work of Wilshire Baptist in Dallas, Texas. The church conversations illustrate the challenges and gifts of faithfully wrestling with sexuality, orientation, identity, and gender.' --Joretta L. Marshall, professor and director of the Carpenter Initiative in Gender, Sexuality, and Justice, Brite Divinity School 'In this book, Mark Wingfield walks us through the thorough, intense, and biblically serious process by which Wilshire Baptist made the decision whether or not to be inclusive of all who would come. A masterful storyteller, Wingfield sets the scene and provides a narrative that gets the reader as close to being there as nonmembers could be. In this book, there is real-life guidance for churches, families, or individuals struggling through these issues of the heart that have relevance to the greatest commandment: to love God and to love one another.' --Jackie Baugh Moore, director of the Baugh Foundation 'Mark Wingfield is right: it's past time for every faith community to have a conversation about sexuality and inclusion. We've been in that place for some time now, with faith communities falling shamefully behind the rest of society in welcoming all of God's beloved children. In this book you'll read the story of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, a church with leaders who felt the compelling call of the gospel to move ahead in a process of faithful learning and prophetic action. You'll read about their process and understand the risks they took, be invited into the mistakes they made, the loss they suffered, and ultimately the risky witness they embraced--together. Read Wilshire's story so that you may act with bold witness, and so that the church may show the world the radical witness of Jesus and lead us all in the way of love and justice. May it be so.' --Amy Butler, pastor and author Read more About the Author Mark Wingfield is a veteran religious journalist who draws upon his experience as a pastor to write about the intersection of faith and culture, theology and current issues. He is a nationally syndicated columnist and associate pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas.David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 22 books and approximately 150 book chapters, journal articles, and reviews, including Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust, Kingdom Ethics, The Sacredness of Human Life, Evangelical Ethics, A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends, Still Christian, and the forthcoming Moral Leadership for a Divided Age: Fourteen People Who Dared to Change Our World. He has been President of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics. He has also been heavily involved in numerous activist efforts for peace, justice, human dignity, and the integrity of God's creation, most notably in addressing torture, climate change, and the continued harm being inflicted on LGBTQ persons by Christian churches and families. Read more
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