A review by cosmicbookworm
Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach Between the Conservative Church and the LGBT Christian Community by Kathy Baldock

5.0

I highly recommend reading Kathy Baldock's book. It is a bit outdated....it was published before the Supreme Court acknowledged that gay folk should have the same right to marry as everyone else. She has another book coming out later this year. She also has a youtube presence. Some of her internet presence may make the information more readily available. Kathy Baldock has taken the time to learn of which she speaks. She takes us through history to see how we got to where we are today. She shows how our traditional understanding of the six clobber passages misses the point. She tells the story of many gay Christians and families that have dealt with having a gay child or a gay parent. She tells of her transformation from a "Bible Believing Evangelical" to a person who will REALLY take the time to understand scripture instead of using the Bible to support the biases that we have learned from our peers and parents. What if everything we have always been told to be true is a misunderstanding? And what if people have died and been kept from Christianity as a result? My heart is heavy. Especially this afternoon when I open my mail to an invitation from Gospel Coalition to watch a debate and I hear a pastor speak in ways that would be SO hurtful to our gay or trans brothers and sisters. Sometimes as Evangelical Christians we are SO addicted to needing to be right that we refuse to learn what God is showing us, no matter who gets hurt in the meantime.