A Question Time style panel discussion, hosted jointly by the Meeting House, Brunel LGBT+ and Brunel Christian Union.

For centuries there has been a great deal of controversy regarding LGBT+ people and faith. For the first time ever Brunel hosts a discussion on whether you can be LGBT+ and Christian. Bring any questions to be put anonymously to a panel of guests from different backgrounds. All are welcome and it will be a safe space. Questions can be submitted anonymously in a question box or openly by the audience.

There will be tea, coffee, and doughnuts :)

You don't have to be religious or LGBT+ to be interested in this subject. Join us for a chilled evening where you can put any questions to a panel of self confessed "LGBT+ Christians" - no sermons just a bit about their stories then they'll take any questions you put in the hat.

About the Panel:

GEORGIE is a newly qualified nurse and is gay. She found faith a few years ago and is honest about the challenges facing LGBT people in mainstream religion but is passionate about LGBT people being able to live life to the full.
JAMES has just graduated from his degree in Maths and Drama and now works for a community drama group in Reading. He has known he is gay since he was a young teenager and believes that God accepts him as he is. 
KYLE is a transgendered student nurse. He grew up in a Christian home and when his church tried to "pray away his trans" and became aggressively opposed, he ended up having to leave for his own mental health safety. Remarkably Kyle remains strong in his conviction that God is not like that and that church can and should be better. He has recently started doing media work on trans-inclusion within faith. 
RACHEL graduated from Brunel 2 years ago where she studied design and was evangelism secretary of the Christian Union. She is straight and assumed LGBT identity was not God's best until she looked into what the Bible really says and got to know some of the LGBT soc here. She is now working as a designer for a car firm and is an activist for LGBT rights in her spare time

Event Details

  Tuesday 25 November 2014

  7:30pm - 9pm

  The Meeting House