I’m glad you consider yourself progressive, congrats, but is your presence actually and actively moving the needle on important values and issues in your church, or is it mostly providing “progressive cover” for your church’s conservative policies, leading to an inadvertent “duping” and “misleading” of congregants?
Read MoreForefront has changed us by helping us learn and unlearn, as well as reinvigorated our theological imagination. We found folks who shared with us a faith affinity that empowered us to take our faith to the streets to denounce power.
Read MoreI wasn’t ready to give up on the idea of church, but I wanted to find a place that was fully inclusive and more aligned with where I was at with my faith. I began to realize that maybe finding community was less about fitting myself into a space and more about building connections around the things I value and care about.
Read MoreThat was in 2001. After 9/11 happened, I got really depressed, drank way too much, and out of sheer desperation I wandered into a coffee shop that was also a church and decided to try things one more time. I realized I needed a religion that was about love, not just about me.
Read MoreOur past experiences with other churches haven’t made our faith journeys easy, but Forefront has given us the freedom to live in the uncertainty of faith. We’ve been able to admit our anxieties and fears, to be okay with asking good questions rather than having all the answers, and to be welcomed into a community where wrestling with faith is not only accepted but encouraged.
Read MoreUntil that moment, I had never put together the pieces that my rejection of God and spirituality came at the same time that I was discovering my sexuality. And suddenly, it all made sense.
Read MoreMany scriptures are up for interpretation and many people sent me hard definitive “words from God”. I didn’t know what to think or feel. I cried up to God and I got one verse from Sunday school thrown at me. “All good things come from me.” God was always guiding me.
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