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 I was a gay activist - then prayer and therapy saved my life.

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Gay activism was my passion. I felt suicidal throughout my teens. It was only when overcome with a crippling depression in 1985 that I broke down and came out to my parents when aged 17. Dad and Mum were amazing - merciful, kind, understanding. 

I came out in high school at a time when no one admitted publicly to being gay. Then at 18 I was the first person to be openly gay in my London university. I wasn’t just gay - I was 110 per cent gay. Everybody saw this and affirmed it to be true about me. Privately, I also struggled with believing I was a woman trapped in a man’s body.

I preached homosexuality. I saw it as my vocation to sermonise that people were born gay. 

I fought for lesbians and gays to be wholly accepted, for churches to change their teaching about homosexuality, and for laws to be made to reflect equal rights across the board for same-sex attracted persons. 

I had hundreds of sexual partners before settling down with my perfect man, Steve. He and I entered into a monogamous, long-term committed relationship, fighting together for gay rights.

During our relationship, a fellow student at university - a man of prayer - asked me if I wanted more love in my life. I responded yes - who wouldn’t? He invited me to a young adults’ gathering where each person noticeably had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Within three weeks, I had made a simple prayer of repentance and had asked God’s Spirit to control my life. 

I felt nothing but, believing in faith that God now lived in my heart, I began to silently pray a few minutes every day and was discipled by the man of prayer. 

Steve began to notice changes in me that he liked. He too committed his life to Jesus. We then preached that it is okay to be gay and Christian, becoming a model gay Christian couple across London.

As I grew in intimacy with Jesus through prayer, so too did I feel discomfort in my relationship with Steve. I felt a particularly gnawing need to cover up my body and not to make it available as had been the custom. I now see that the Holy Spirit was drawing a ‘line in the sand’.

I ended the relationship sensing that somehow manhood and masculinity were still a mystery to me. I left the gay community and made the church my new home with fellow believers.

Some Christian leaders tried to get me to go back to Steve; others castigated me. Jesus just kept loving me.

Once I had rejected labelling myself according to my same-sex attractions - which were still vibrant and very real - I focussed entirely on Jesus. Here began my incredible journey of recovery through prayer and great therapy.

The idea of changing sexual attraction had never crossed my mind. Why should it have? I had wholeheartedly believed the mantra that I was born gay.

For me, therapy was merely about facing the usual emotional hurdles. Only once I stepped away from the gay community did I begin to recognise that a victim mentality had become embedded into my mind through LGBTQ+ ideology and activism.

Over time, various therapies uncovered a mountain of crippling pain. My ‘being gay’ was never therapy’s focus but neither could my lived reality be left outside of the therapists’ doors. Interestingly, the same therapeutic dialogues I had then are likely to soon be deemed illegal across the UK.

Therapy helped me beyond words. I faced repressed memories of infantile trauma, extensive childhood sex abuse, and my being raped on three separate occasions by three different gay men as a teenager, which had also led me on occasions to deeply question my gender as any sense of my maleness had slowly been shattered.

Repentance, forgiveness, and listening for God’s leading along my therapeutic and spiritual journeys became my new norm. 

Within a few years of this therapeutic and spiritual rhythm, my insatiable eroticisation of men diminished. This had never been the plan. Unexpectedly, as men stopped being a mystery to me, woman became the mystery I desired to pursue. 

I dated, eventually married a woman, and today love being a father. Yes, therapy and prayer did convert me. I became my truest self in line with my biology and fertility. Life has honestly never been better.

Interestingly, if I had never embarked upon insightful therapy, I would never have uncovered the painfully repressed memories of extensive sexual abuse and assault. My faith in Christ gave me the courage to face my abusers. 

Years later, I found myself bringing the most prevalent of my childhood abusers before the judiciary. His actions had ruined the lives of tens if not hundreds of children. My witness secured the guilty verdict, and more children were protected from his recidivistic diabolical actions.

For three decades, I have been walking alongside many vulnerable individuals who struggle with unwanted sexual attractions and questions about gender. Their voices are rarely if ever heard. Over half of their stories contain some detail of childhood sexual abuse. All of their stories contain some failure to develop emotional maturity. There is no wonder that LGBTQ+ community struggles with a use-and-abuse culture and with serious issues around mental health. Underlying issues are ignored.

I wonder where my own life would be today if I hadn’t embraced proven therapy. Would I be dead like Steve who died in his forties? Or dead like my gay cousin who took his life months after his same-sex civil ceremony? Or dead like another friend who suicided weeks after his same-sex ‘marriage’ as the inner peace which the ceremony promised him and his long-term partner never materialised?

I wonder how many children were spared being victim to the literal hands of my own childhood sexual abuser. 

I wonder how many perpetrators are still abusing because their victims have never been able to truly uncover and face their own pasts.

The British Government has developed proposals to end conversion therapy, which include a new criminal offence, as well as civil measures. They claim to have analysed available evidence and listened to stakeholders, to have learnt from international counterparts and identified gaps in Britain’ legislation. But they have only listened to one side of the story.

Thousands of men and women who privately struggle with same-sex attraction, gender dysphoria, horrendous memories and flashbacks from sexual abuse and assault visit therapists every day. Many lean on pastoral care teams in churches. These carers keep people sane. They keep marriages and families together. They bring recovery and healing into places few can dare to face alone.

One group that wins by demonising therapy and prayer for those struggling with sexual and identity issues is the perpetrators, who lobby as the victims and oppress anyone that dares to challenge their perverted agenda.

It is time for anyone, and especially the Christian community, who truly cares about those grappling with pained sexuality and identity to stand up and to vehemently challenge every politician. Only an outright rejection of the insidious draft Conversion Practices Bill before Parliament will create a safer and more inclusive future. CT.

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And Yet The CofE Is Talking About Giving Away £100 Million Of Church Monies To Slave Nations From 250 Years Ago! Insane Thought Processes.

Charles Spencer warns repair costs are leaving churches ‘struggling to survive’.

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Historical author, Charles Spencer, has warned that Britain’s historic churches are increasingly under threat due to the financial burden of maintaining them.

Writing for The Financial Times Spencer noted that in 2025 the Church of England alone needed over a billion pounds for major repairs across its 16,000 churches. Many such churches, especially those with smaller congregations, are “struggling to survive”, he argued.

Spencer, who is also an earl and the brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, pointed to the example of St Mary’s Church in Battersea. Spencer received a request to help fundraise for the church, which needs a quarter of a million to restore its portico, pillars, railings and church bells.

The church has its own unique history, Spencer says. JMW Turner painted there, while poet William Blake was married there. The church is also the final resting place of Benedict Arnold, a man who briefly turned traitor during the American rebellion before reaffirming his loyalty to the crown.

Spencer pointed to the increasingly difficult environment faced by historic churches, especially since the ending of the government’s Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme (LPWGS), which exempted historic churches from paying VAT on repairs.

While the government has introduced a successor scheme, it operates at a reduced budget and does not include the VAT exemption.

The Church of England is not alone in this struggle, Spencer noted - the Church of Scotland earmarked a third of its churches for closure back in 2023 and has been selling them off ever since. Indeed, in the last two weeks the Church of Scotland has already announced the transfer of ownership of an historic cathedral and has said it is considering something similar with the Abbey Church of Dunfermline, where Robert the Bruce is buried.

Meanwhile, the Church of England, despite stronger finances, is also struggling, if not to the same degree, due to its other commitments. Spencer pointed to a £150 million fund for survivors of Church-related abuse, £190 million for net zero and £7.5 million for an independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, on top of an increase in the stipend of clergy.

Spencer did not however mention the £100 million put aside for the controversial Project Spire, aimed at redressing the alleged historic involvement of the Church of England in the transatlantic slave trade.

Critics of the scheme, aside from questioning the historical accuracy of the claims behind it, have argued that the funds would be better used in struggling local parishes up and down the country.

Spencer said that while St Mary’s as a high-profile church in London was likely to get the funds it needs via generous benefactors, many smaller local parishes are likely to struggle, despite each one of them being a repository for history, heritage and culture. CT.

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 At least 27 killed in Zimbabwe church bus crash; President Emmerson Mnangagwa makes disaster declaration.

By The Christian Post Sep 1, 2026 05:42 EDT 3 mins read

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At least 27 people were killed when a minibus taxi carrying members of a Christian congregation crashed head-on into a haulage truck in Zimbabwe. Seven others were hurt.

Zimbabwe Republic Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said in a statement that the truck was attempting to pass another vehicle when it struck the minibus taxi near Chivhu, roughly 87 miles south of the nation's capital, Harare, on Friday, according to DW.

The crash occurred at about 8:30 p.m. local time near Honeyspruit Bridge in Chikomba District, Mashonaland East Province, along the Harare-Masvingo Highway, according to the Zimbabwe Situation.

The truck carried foreign registration plates, meaning it was not licensed inside Zimbabwe. It was reportedly carrying mining equipment from South Africa, destined for Goromonzi district. 

Nyathi said the passengers belonged to a well-known indigenous African Christian denomination whose members typically wear white robes, and that they were headed to a conference when the crash happened in the night. He said the number of passengers aboard each vehicle was “unspecified.”

The congregation was later identified as the African Apostolic Church, also known as the Mwazha church, whose members were traveling from Dema to Ndarikure in Mvuma for a religious conference, according to Arabian Post.

It has been reported that the minibus was overloaded, carrying as many as 34 passengers.

ZBC, the state broadcaster, shared video showing the minibus taxi as a burned-out wreck, and local media circulated photographs of the crash site, according to AL.com.

A provincial government minister put the death toll at 23 at the scene, with the rest of the victims dying later at a hospital, ABC News reported. However, updated figures from Local Government and Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe put the toll at 24 dead at the scene, with three more dying later at Chivhu General Hospital, according to allAfrica.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared a State of Disaster in response to the crash, invoking Section 27(1) of Zimbabwe's Civil Protection Act. The declaration allows the government to mobilize resources and coordinate assistance for survivors and bereaved families, including covering medical expenses and burial costs, according to Arabian Post.

Overcrowded buses and minibus taxis are frequently involved in road accidents in Zimbabwe, which authorities often link to reckless driving and poor road conditions. Human error is blamed for 94% of the country’s crashes, officials say.

Privately run minibus taxis, called kombis, are a primary means of daily transport for many Zimbabweans. Operators are frequently accused of packing in more riders than permitted, and years of underfunding and neglect have left many roads pocked with potholes.

A minibus fire on a southern Zimbabwe highway in April left at least 18 people dead. Days earlier, a woman and her five children died when a haulage truck collided with their vehicle on a road linking Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Zimbabwe’s government moved to curb such accidents in 2024, restricting kombis with 26 seats or fewer to routes within about 37 miles of their permit areas, down from about 75 miles, and requiring public vehicles to install speed monitoring devices, according to the country’s Transport and Infrastructural Development Ministry.

Officials said long-distance travelers should use buses instead, arguing that buses offer more legroom and baggage space than kombis.

The country’s national statistics agency has said Zimbabwe averages one road accident every quarter hour and at least five deaths a day, among the highest tolls on the continent.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa estimates that road crashes claim roughly 300,000 lives on the continent annually, about one-quarter of deaths from crashes worldwide. It says the continent’s fatality rate is the highest anywhere, even though Africa’s 1.5 billion residents own only about 3% of the planet’s registered vehicles.

Originally published by The Christian Post.   CD.

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 JD Vance: Antichrist may be walking among us.

Vice-president tells evangelical YouTuber he ‘wouldn’t be shocked’ if world is living through ‘end times’

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Published 03 September 2026 12:34pm BST

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JD Vance has claimed that the Antichrist may be “walking among us”, and said the world may be living through the “end times”.

The US vice-president made the comments during a podcast interview with Bryce Crawford, a 22-year-old evangelical Christian with more than a million YouTube followers.

While promoting his new book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, Mr Vance said he was “trying to focus on doing as much of God’s work as possible”.

“Do I think that we’re in the end times? I don’t know. I think that it’s probably bad for me spiritually to focus too much on it,” Mr Vance said.

“There are things about the world that make me feel not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us.”

He added: “I tend to think that while I wouldn’t be shocked if we are living in the end times, what I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now, and that if that leads to the end times, OK.”

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