Nov 3, 2021
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Back i
"Back in my teenage, evangelical-youth-group-attending days, part of me wished I had been a drug addict.
I’m not saying I wanted to be a drug addict. Heavens no. But I wanted to be one of those guys who used to be a drug addict. I wanted a Christian testimony with a colorful backstory. I wanted to talk about Jesus the way gym rats talk about fitness, with obvious before-and-after photos proving the magnitude of my transformation."