Cornerstone Project

For the inclusion of LGBT+ Christians and their families in churches

CORNERSTONES is the blog ofCornerstone Project, coordinated byLa Tenda di Gionata, which aims to collect and offer testimonies and reflections from many voices on the welcome of LGBT+ Christians and their families in our Christian communities (Catholic and Evangelical). What are the challenges, possibilities and ways in which it can be achieved? What problems does it pose and what possibilities does it open up? How theology and the study of the Bible can help us create cornerstones with which to build more inclusive Christian communities, so that “The stone that the builders rejected"become“corner head” (Luke 20:17-18)

  • April 27, 2025 Webinar online with the American poet Joy Ladin on Bible, genre and faith

    Sunday 27 April 2025, at 6 pm, online webinar in/verses on trans identity, poetry, bible and Judaism. What does it mean to live one's authenticity by re -reading the Bible through a transgender perspective? This question will help us to answer this question, Joy Ladin, American poet and essayist, first person openly transgender to teach in an Orthodox Jewish institution; Author of the autobiography, unpublished ...

  • Because in our churches it is important to talk about the inclusion of LGBTQ+ people

    Text published in The Reformation Project (United States) on October 1, 2023. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. For decades, many churches have promoted "ex-gay" ministries (also known as conversion therapies) as if they were the most faithful Christian response towards LGBTQ+people. This approach was based on the idea that, with enough ...

  • Christ is risen. And me?

    Reflections sent to us by Marco "Maria was outside, near the sepulcher, and cried" (John 20:11) I too, like Maria, I am close to a sepulcher. But mine is not excavated in the rock. It is made of silences, of words never said, of closed -end closed wardrobes. It is Easter again, and I am here too: with ...

  • How can we help those close to us to be free?

    Text by James Martin, SJ* published on Outreach (United States), a resource site for LGBT+ Catholics on April 5, 2025. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. Every time I preach in recent times on the song of the Resurrection of Lazzaro, who is one of the alternative texts for the fifth Sunday of Lent, I often say ...

  • In the Catholic Church we cannot abandon transgender people

    Reflections by Father Bryan Massing* published on the Catholic monthly Us Catholic (United States), vol. 81, n.8, page 8, of August 2016. Freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project. In February 2026 I participated in a round table on transgender Catholics during the Los Angeles religious education congress, entitled "Transgender in the Church: One Broad, One ...

  • The cross that remains on the skin

    Intervention held by Mons. Francesco Savino, bishop of Cassano allajonio and vice president of the CEI, at the presentation of the book "Via Crucis of a gay boy" by Luigi Testa in the Parish of San Giuseppe in Rome on April 4, 202 there are existential plots that do not just tell a life, but expose it. Not for exhibitionism, ...