For years, the Church has been challenged in this direction. It has learned to embrace women in leadership. It is learning to embrace people of diverse sexual and gender orientations. In the process, we have left behind or reinterpreted ideas that we once thought sacrosanct.

I cannot walk through most of our churches without having to duck at the stones that are thrown in the form of whispers, verses and stares. If looks could kill, I'd be dead.

We'll gladly take scouting warts and all, but we look forward to the day when our troop can express as generous a welcome to LGBT families as our congregation does.

Churches, synagogues, mosques and temples are places where people with disabilities might not expect to feel excluded, isolated or patronized, but tha...

It was 1991 when the people of Mt. Auburn decided to declare themselves an inclusive church. They announced to the world they would begin to practice the same radical hospitality that Jesus did.

There are certain churches that say they have become inclusive to LGBT christians, but at the same time the refuse protect them or exclude those who oppose the inclusivity or even attack them.