A War of Loves: The Unexpected Story of a Gay Activist Discovering Jesus

The reality is, Jesus’ call of discipleship is a claim on all of our lives.

The opposite of homosexuality is not heterosexuality. It is holiness.

No Christian should carry a cross alone, and if someone is, the church is not fulfilling the law of Christ, as Paul talks about in Galatians 6:2.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”

Why would someone give up their same-sex desires and their hope for romance, unless they’d found something higher?

love without truth is not love at all. And truth without love? Well, it’s not truth.

If Jesus was celibate and the ultimate example of human flourishing for all of us, gay or straight, then isn’t it clear that celibacy is not an inhumane sentence for gay people like me but actually a legitimate, and even honorable, choice?

God, not marriage, was to be our ultimate desire.

Very few same-sex-attracted or gay people report that when they become Christians, their desires simply disappear. Rather, as in my story, many find that God gives them a special empowering grace to be celibate.