Responses to “The LGBTQ+ Community and the Brethren in Christ”

Why?

Why circle back to an issue we printed a year ago (August 2024) on the subject of “The Brethren in Christ Church and the LGBTQ+ Community”?¹

• Because the Historical Society wants to keep a controversial issue front and center?
• Because the Historical Society is looking to help influence the denomination’s theological position on a controversial topic?
• Because the Historical Society is advocating for a position that does not align with our denomination’s theological position?

All of these are questions that have been asked and assumptions that have been communicated to the Historical Society—both in response to the printing of the August 2024 edition of the journal, and now the August 2025 edition that you hold in your hands.

I became Executive Director of the Historical Society in January 2025—after the August 2024 edition was published, and so I wanted to take an opportunity to share why the board of the Historical Society voted unanimously to publish this follow up issue.

Read the responses here:

1. See Brethren in Christ History and Life 47, no. 2 (2024): 151-263. [↩]