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Fruitful is a series of day conferences for LGBT+ Charismatic Christians and their allies in the UK. In 2026, there will be two Fruitful day conferences - one has already happened at Birmingham in April, the other is scheduled for Whitstable, on 12 September. Not everyone can make it to conferences such as these, but for those who can go along they are times of enormous encouragement, fellowship, worship and teaching. As a taster, Fruitful have put up the talks from April's d

David Runcorn is a convenor of the Inclusive Evangelical network, and the author of Love means Love – same-sex relationship and the bible. A collection of studies and stories about evangelical faith and belief has just been published. Evangelical and Inclusive – a future and a hope is significant because it is written by evangelicals who support the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ people and their relationships in the life of the church. Their purpose is more than a revisiting of

A book review by Dr Stephen Burnhope of Darrin W. Snyder Belousek's Marriage, Scripture, and the Church: Theological Discernment on the Question of Same-Sex Union . Marriage, Scripture, and the Church has been widely praised in conservative circles as a compelling defence of a traditional doctrine of exclusively male–female marriage. Its endorsers have welcomed the author’s decision to move beyond the familiar debate about the so-called “clobber texts” and to reframe the d