Narrow Is The Way

The church ought to embrace "homosexual people who live faithfully in covenanted partnerships." This is the plea that Lewis Smedes addresses particularly to the Christian Reformed Church (CRC). Writing in the May, 1999 issue of Perspectives, Smedes urges the acceptance of practicing homosexuals in the CRC. He exhorts the CRC to "embrace," that is, accept as members of the church in good and regular standing, "Christian homosexual people who have committed themselves to a monogamous...