How has the church harmed LGBTQ+ individuals? If we have perpetrated harm, how do we repent of that? How do we heal from church hurt? And what does the Bible have to say about all of this? Explore the answers in this week's episode of Gospel for Us+.

Additional resources for this episode's topic:

Church/Christian idolization of marriage and heterosexuality

• https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-heterosexual-gospel


• https://www.relevantmagazine.com/life5/career-money/christians-turned-marriage-idol/


• https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/review/breaking-the-marriage-idol-reconstructing-our-cultural-and-spiritual-norms/


• https://www.premierchristianity.com/opinion/the-church-is-failing-single-people-heres-3-things-we-can-do-about-it/5262.article

Understanding and overcoming church hurt

• https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/help-in-overcoming-church-hurt


• https://www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/2021/10/28/why-wont-my-feelings-of-church-hurt-go-away/


• https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/how-respond-church-leaders-fall/


• https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/lets-talk-podcast/lets-talk-overcoming-church-hurt/

Origins of conversion therapy

• https://www.history.com/news/gay-conversion-therapy-origins-19th-century


• http://dspace.creighton.edu:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10504/124721/CLR_52-4_Graham.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Harms of conversion therapy

• https://www.hrc.org/resources/the-lies-and-dangers-of-reparative-therapy


• https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/case-against-conversion-therapy

Church/Christian involvement in conversion therapy

• https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370


• https://www.npr.org/2021/08/02/1022837295/former-ex-gay-leaders-denounce-conversion-therapy-in-a-new-documentary