You Have The Right To Be Angry! Bishop Of Liverpool Advice To LGBT Christians

Oct 21, 2016 by

By Ruth Gledhill, Christian Today:

The Bishop of Liverpool has urged lesbian and gay Christians not to hide or suppress their anger about the way they have been treated by the Church.

Too often, people in power dismiss angry people with phrases such as, “Calm down, dear,” he says.

“In the face of this old and cold advice I want to offer an even older, warmer, Biblical encouragement to those on the edge in the churches, and in this season to LGBT Christians in particular: be warmly angry, be hot with anger, but do not boil away.”

He urges them not to give up, however hard things get.

“Feel what you feel, and turn the feeling to strength. Don’t mourn, organise. Let the person you are in God speak out, so that your own desires and your own anger become the engine for a just world.”

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