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Video> Persone LGBT+ e comunità cristiane: “perché pescare vuol dire salvare?”

In this video interview with Pastora and theologian Battista Anna Maffei, who from 2004 to 2010 was the first president of the Woman of the Evangelical Christian Union of Italy (Ucebi), we asked to help us reflect on the welcome of LGBT+ people in Christian communities; to tell us when he found himself with his community to have concretely built this reception; And why be "fishermen ...

The debate in the Churches / The evangelical pastor responds / Faith and homosexuality

Salvation that changes

Dialogue between Paolo, volunteer of the Evangelical Project, and Gabriele Bertin, candidate for the pastoral ministry of the Waldensian church and deputy secretary of the FGEI. In many testimonies of "conversion" from homosexual to heterosexual, such as that of Alessandro, believer of the Parola della Grazia church in Palermo, often we witness the abandonment of various vices after the experience of Salvation, as if they belonged to homosexuality and not to the condition...

The debate in the Churches / parents / The evangelical pastor responds

As a parent with a homosexual child, what is it right for me to pray to God for?

Dialogue between Paolo, volunteer of the Evangelical Project, and Gabriele Bertin, candidate for the pastoral ministry of the Waldensian church and deputy secretary of the FGEI. How many times have parents of homosexual children found themselves having to pray for their children, seeking from God an answer that would counteract the condition of their children? children, hoping for a divine miracle, or hoping to get an answer that would...

The debate in the Churches / The evangelical pastor responds / Faith and homosexuality

What is God's will for us homosexuals?

Dialogue with Gabriele Bertin, candidate for the pastoral ministry of the Waldensian church and deputy secretary of the FGEI, with Paolo, volunteer of the Evangelical Project We continue the dialogue with Gabriele Bertin, with whom we are examining some aspects of the faith, taking inspiration from listening to the testimony of Alessandro, a believer of the Parola della Grazia church in Palermo, which testifies to his "conversion" from homosexual to heterosexual. In previous articles we talked...

Insights / The evangelical pastor responds

Is it right that a homosexual should feel judged by his own church?

Dialogue with Gabriele Bertin, candidate for the pastoral ministry of the Waldensian church and deputy secretary of the FGEI, with Paolo, volunteer of the Evangelical Project We continue the discussion with Gabriele Bertin*, with whom we are exploring some aspects of the faith, taking inspiration from listening to the testimony of Alessandro, believer of the Parola della Grazia church in Palermo, who testifies to his "conversion" from homosexual to heterosexual. In the last article we...

The evangelical pastor responds / Letters to Jonathan

Can my identity in Christ coexist with my homosexuality?

Dialogue with Gabriele Bertin, candidate for the pastoral ministry of the Waldensian church and deputy secretary of the FGEI, with Paolo, volunteer of the Evangelical Project Many of us will certainly have heard the testimony of Alessandro, a young Sicilian boy from the Parola della Grazia church (PDG) in Palermo. Testimonies often represent the tool used by us LGBT Christians to try to understand more about...