by Bridget Eileen Rivera | Jul 12, 2021
The PCA general assembly passed an overture last week that declares same-sex attraction to be a sin and disqualifies gay and same-sex attracted men from office. Here’s the full text: “Officers in the Presbyterian Church of America must be above reproach in their walk...
by Bridget Eileen Rivera | Mar 3, 2021
Last week, a group of leaders in the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA) released an open letter to gay Anglicans. It followed on the heels of the ACNA’s recent “pastoral statement” on human sexuality, which I wrote about last month, where the ACNA College of...
by Bridget Eileen Rivera | Jan 29, 2021
I recently stumbled across an old e-mail to a former pastor years ago. We’d been engaged in conversations about “same-sex attraction,” typically at coffee shops where we exchanged pleasantries before he launched into interrogation-style questions designed to root out...
by Bridget Eileen Rivera | Jun 10, 2020
The PCA’s report on human sexuality sparked an interesting assortment of reactions when it came out last month. Revoice co-founder Stephen Moss called it a “solid resource for our denomination,” even as Denny Burk, who is publicly and passionately vocal about his...
by Bridget Eileen Rivera | Feb 27, 2020
Some exciting news! The past few months I’ve been hard at work on the beginning stages of a book project with Brazos Press. It’s still very much in its infancy and I’m still drafting most of the chapters (which is why you haven’t seen me...