BPFNA News & Announcements

Christians, the Church & Sexual Orientation: Advancing the Conversation

The 25th annual BPFNA Summer Conference was held July 12-17 at Keuka College in the Finger Lakes region of New York state. The week included Bible study with Pat Dutcher-Walls, sermons from Rachel McGuire, and music from Kim & Reggie Harris. This featured video is the first in a multi-part series on Christians, the Church & Sexual Orientation: Advancing the Conversation, with Harry Knox, founding director of the Human Rights Campaign's Faith & Religion Program, and Tony & Peggy Campolo. (The series is in production, and additional segments can be seen on our YouTube channel as they become available.)

BPFNA Partner Congregation Welcomes Far-Right Protest Group

The congregation of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC (a BPFNA Partner Congregation), welcomed a group of anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Islam protesters to its worship service July 18 -- even as a nearby conservative church shunned the group.
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Partner Congregation Pastor Arrested at Protest of Schools in North Carolina

Several protesters, including pastor Nancy Petty of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC and William Barber, the leader of the North Carolina NAACP, were arrested July 20 at Wake County (NC) school headquarters. They and hundreds of others were protesting a pending decision that would change the way students are assigned to schools, fearing a possible resegregationof the student population.
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Campolos, Knox Lead Panel on Sexual Orientation

Tony and Peggy Campolo spoke in a panel discussion titled “Christians, the Church and Sexual Orientation: Advancing the Conversation” today with members of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America (BPFNA). It was the second day of the BPFNA’s summer conference, held this year at Keuka College in upper New York state.
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BPFNA Marks 15th Anniversary of Welcoming & Affirming Statement on Justice & Sexual Orientation

This year the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America marks the 15th anniversary of its stand for Justice and Sexual Orientation, affirming the belief that “all human beings are created and loved by God,” and “[welcoming] into our movement all persons of faith who desire to be peacemakers and workers for justice, regardless of sexual orientation.”
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BPFNA Co-Sponsors 'Truth Commission on Conscience in War'

Truth commissions have been used to report on human rights abuses and systemic injustices and to foster justice and healing for a whole society. Meeting at New York City's Riverside Church, this Truth Commission sought to bring to light the issues facing soldiers who find themselves in opposition to a specific war instead of "war in any form" as required in current regulations. Founding director Ken Sehested represented BPFNA and wrote this op-ed piece for the online version of the Washington Post.
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"A Call to Conscience and Community in a Time of War"

BPFNA has adopted this statement to call congregations and individuals to faithfully consider and respond to the Iraq war.
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