At the bottom of the first page of the program for Spelman College’s Baccalaureate Service held on May 18, 2024, at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park, a southwest suburb of Atlanta, is the last sentence in baccalaureate speaker Bishop Yvette A. Flunder’s bio, and perhaps for some the most jarring. It reads: … Continue reading Bishop Yvette A. Flunder on LGBTQ Inclusion in the Black Church: ‘We Have to Have the Courage to Create Something of Our Own’