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Former AOG leader - founder of Youth Alive NSW - now out

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Myfanwe
 
Joined in 2007
November 16, 2007, 14:41

I have written a review. It’s not showing up on the page, though for some reason. Maybe they take time to load?



Anthony Venn-Brown
 
Joined in 2005
November 16, 2007, 14:48

think you might jsut be the first female too.



Myfanwe
 
Joined in 2007
November 16, 2007, 14:48

There was a review from a Dr Michelle…I think she beat me to it. 🙂



Sandy
 
Joined in 2007
November 16, 2007, 17:59

You might regret that offer 😉 Actually I would have no idea what to say, maybe that is what facinates me so much about the story, I can’t quite pin it down, box it up and pack it away. Your theology that comes through in bits and peices is interestingly vauge and noncommital. Leaves the reader going “yeah and?!” which is a good thing, ever thought of writing soap operas? 😆


You are a good writer, Shakespeare still has some points on you but not too bad at all really. 😉 Has anyone read anything by Malcom Boyde? Reading his works you can almost literally experience the words, that man has a special place in my heart.


November 16, 2007, 23:15

I really enjoyed your book Anthony. Along with Mel White’s Stranger at the Gate is the best book to do with being Gay and Christian that I have read. And because you mention so many people and places that I am familiar with I could relate to your story a lot more than Mel’s.



Anthony Venn-Brown
 
Joined in 2005
November 19, 2007, 10:34

several miracles happened with writing Sandy…..one of the most amazing i think is that people read it….sometimes first book since high school….sometimes in one sitting….or sometimes more than once.


not false humility here……..just acknowledging that having never writtten like that before…..or with little changes from the editor……..then somehow I was helped.


March 11, 2008, 21:05


It seems that both options tend to wrap up our wants in a cute little package deal, both are certainly seductive.


Are you for real?


Do you know how hard it is for some people to come out. For me it meant resigning from my job, leaving my church and family and friends and moving interstate where I knew nobody. I actually drove from Queensland to Melbourne with no earthly idea where I was even going to stay when I got there. I had no money and if I hadn’t found work quickly could quite easily have been sleeping on the streets. Please tell me what is seductive about that. It would have been much easier for me to stay home and keep my dirty little secret all to myself.


Yeah, great seductive little package tours. 🙄



Sandy
 
Joined in 2007
March 11, 2008, 22:15

I am against promoting pro-gay theology to anyone young or old. But you certainly have a very good point. It is a tricky slope isn’t it? To counsel a young person not to hate themselves for their sexuality and to suggest that they don’t have to lie or cover up their orientation, get married or anything. It seems the third option of not embracing homosexuality as God-given and natural and living a life of celibacy and singleness is not often taken and rarely applauded. I can certainly unserstand why! The other two options promise us what we want, to live as a homosexual with pride and to have God, or conversly to conquer the demons within overcome sexual ‘disability’ and live as an ‘ex gay’. It seems that both options tend to wrap up our wants in a cute little package deal, both are certainly seductive.


I have just put that quote within the context it was written. Actually it has nothing to do with coming out. I am all for coming out, I would be in the closet myself if I wasn’t and I am certainly not naive of the presecution you can face when you do. I empathise, no one should have had to go through what you and your partner experienced.


However if you read my comment within its context you will see I was refering to pro-gay theology and ex-gay theology as the package deals. There is a gulf between staying in the closet and eaither of these things.



Anthony Venn-Brown
 
Joined in 2005
March 11, 2008, 22:54

sandy…….you posted on my story……that will put it up the top now. do you realisde that my story is one of the least read here. I wonder why that is? 😆 😆 😆



Sandy
 
Joined in 2007
March 11, 2008, 23:40

Well I imagine that many people here, or at least many people who continue to post reguraly have read the more comprehensive version. You have a book, the rest of us only get about 500-700 words so I think you more than make up for your stories lack of popularity on the forum :lol:.


On a side note I have about sixteen hundred copies on A Life of Unlearning if anyone wants one, people keep giving them to me in the hopes I will change my mind. I should remind these obviously ignorant people that the author of the book sets out to convert no one so using it as a conversion tool is kind of ironic 😆 😆


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