(RNS) Eugene Peterson discovered painfully last week that the evangelical establishment will immediately seek to destroy anyone who breaks with their understanding of orthodoxy on LGBTQ issues.
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I have been an outsider among judgmental people. I know how it feels to walk into a room and for people to think they know who you