The Movement Comes Home

Small-town Michigan has come face-to-face with the LBGTQIA+ movement. In the face of a deeply challenging conversation, I saw several reasons to have hope.

My week took an interesting turn last Tuesday when an e-mail hit my inbox. It was from a friend, filling me in on some developments taking place that afternoon in Middleville, MI. For 10 years, my family lived in Middleville, where I was the senior pastor at Peace Church.

I dug into the story a bit and discovered two things:

• Later that day, the Village Co…