A new LGBT organization being highlighted in Nashville news is a project of an incubator run by a local Christian organization.
NewsChannel5 ran a story on Inclusion Tennessee, a radically pro-LGBT group.
Inclusion Tennessee’s website describes the group: (the group’s website uses all lower-case letters)
inclusion tennessee was conceived following a one-year community needs assessment of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community throughout middle tennessee in 2019. this community assessment engaged over two-thousand people throughout the mid-state to gain an understanding of what lgbtqia+ people in this region needed in order to thrive.
the community needs assessment that was commissioned by nashville pride, referred to as the community visioning project, clearly identified many unmet needs within our community. these ranged from having access to affirming and fully inclusive healthcare to having safe social environments outside of nightlife. the community visioning project recommendations were released at the end of 2019, sharing five specific solutions that could be created by our then current lgbtqia+ organizations. the charge was placed to the community and the research continued into the new year.
The group says its work has accomplished “deeper partnerships with leading organizations to create new programming initiatives to support the lives of lgbtq+ people throughout middle tennessee” and “statewide partnerships with organizations to support lgbtq+ programs already existing, but to bring new energy to the middle tennessee region, specifically for trans/nonbinary community members, older adults, and drag artists.”
But in the fine print of Inclusion Tennessee’s site, it is described as “an incubator program of The Center for Contemplative Justice,” a fact that NewsChannel5 did not report.
The Center for Contemplative Justice is a Christian organization.
According to its website:
The Center for Contemplative Justice is a non-profit that supports a variety of social justice ministries and contemplative practices. Members on its board regard contemplative inner work as foundational to acts of social justice and community.
The Center for Contemplative Justice provides administrative and financial resources to individuals and groups that create opportunities for social and structural change.
The organization says it supports a Christian school in Ecuador called Escuala Anne Stevens and a Christian hospice service called Holy Cross Hospice in Botswana.
Rev. Becca Stevens is the chair of the The Center for Contemplative Justice. She graduated from Vanderbilt Divinity School.
“As a priest, author, and entrepreneur I have tried to spend my life inspiring communities to organize and act with love,” the biography page on her website says.
The president and vice char of the Center For Contemplative Justice is Rev. Dr. Scott Owings, an Episcopalian Chaplain at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Chapel in Nashville.
“Scott was ordained to the priesthood in 2015 and has been serving at St. A’s since that time,” his biography says. “His areas of involvement include spiritual direction, preaching, pastoral care, leading the contemplative Eucharist, chairing the CCJ, overseeing our graduate interns, and is the point person for our efforts in Botswana.”
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter.
Photo “Inclusion Tennessee” by Inclusion Tennessee.
Someone explain to me how you can hate sin, which you should but love the one who commits the sin. Example: Love Hitler but hate his killing of the Jews. Can’t be done. Example: Hate the homos sin of grooming children but love the homo. Example: Hate the pedophile as he violates a small child but loves the pedophile. Can’t be done. Love Epstein as he provided girls to the elites but hate what he did! Love Zelenski as he justifies killing the Jews but hate that he is doing it. Love God for destroying Sodom and Gomorrah and its entire population…..Now what are you going to do? Love God for destroying the world except for 8 people….now what are you going to do? Love the Jews and Gentiles for crucifying Jesus Christ……Now what are you going to do? Love God for destroying Egypt….Now what are you going to do?
Amen!
These are radical ‘so called’ Christian organizations and should not be confused with normal Christian organizations.
Radical in this case means people who place more importance and j their words and feeling than what God’s Word says.
These organizations operate only under the pretense of being Christian.
Very sad that these radical groups are called Christians!
this group is not right in their thinking—Yes LOVE the sinner but hate the sin!!! All should be ready to meet GOD when HE calls!! ARE you — in your HEART READY???
A group who supports (encourages) people to sin is not a true Christian organization. We are to love sinners but also to encourage them to “sin no more”.