Hope Remains has been designed by Christian people who have a sincere desire to cut through the prejudice and misinformation concerning God’s gift of sexuality.
For too many years, people whose sexual orientation was other than heterosexual, and transgender individuals, have been marginalized in the churches, made to feel dirty, useless, etc. Sometimes they are subjected to what can only be viewed as spiritual and emotional torture. And when they ultimately cannot change who they are, they are often driven away, and wind up abandoning God, falsely believing that He rejected them.
Others have been deluded into thinking that they can become what they are not, and some have maintained this illusion for years, only to be devastated when it ultimately fails. Such self-delusion usually results in depression, self-loathing, loss of faith in God, and even suicide.
We are not “liberal” theologians. We do not dismiss scripture as irrelevant to this day and age. We believe the Bible, in its original form, was the inerrant word of God. We endeavor to move beyond the mistranslations that exist in English translations of that word, using the extant Hebrew and Greek texts.
Our History
The process of researching the Hebrew and Greek, as well as the history of the church and world in regard to sexuality, began for us in 1980, and continues to this day. When translating from Hebrew and Greek to English, we tend to bypass religious resources, which have been known to alter meanings for doctrinal reasons (not just on this topic). We prefer to rely primarily on secular language sources, whose only “agenda” is proper understanding of the language.
Additional Resources in Across NC - Statewide County
- American Society on Aging
- ATLAS
- Crape Myrtle Festival
- Healthy Sexual
- HIV.Gov
- InjuryFreeNC.org
- Legal Aid NC – Senior Law Project
- Many Voices
- MORE POWERFUL NC
- NaloxoneSaves.org
- NATIONAL FAITH HIV/AIDS AWARENESS DAY FAITH LEADER TOOLKIT
- NC AIDS Action Network
- NC Area Agencies on Aging
- NC Baptist Aging Ministry (BAM)
- NC INJURY AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION BRANCH STOP STIGMA GUIDE
- Never Use Alone
- North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition
- NORTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
- North Carolina Senior Resources
- Southern AIDS Coalition (SAC)
- The Black Church and HIV
- THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
- Undetectable = Untransmittable