A prominent Southern Baptist theology professor believes the much talked about Revoice Conference did not contribute anything truly new to the debate on celibate gay Christianity.
“For my part, I don’t think anything new has been added to our knowledge about the celibate gay identity movement that we didn’t already know,” said Denny Burk, president of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. “In short, the conference was of a piece with what has come before in books and articles and other conferences. Perhaps the only new wrinkle is the involvement of a PCA church and the questions that raises for that denomination.”
Last month, Memorial Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, Missouri, hosted the Revoice Conference, which was centered on Christians who identified as LGBT but also sought to adhere to traditional church teaching on sexual ethics.
Revoice garnered controversy in evangelical circles over some of the rhetoric and claims. Most recently, prominent Southern Baptist leader Al Mohler called the event a “halfway house” between evangelical Christianity and the LGBT culture. He denounced the language (i.e. LGBT Christians)…
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