Mitchell Atencio

Zondervan will put Alan Chambers’s book My Exodus: From Fear to Grace out of print following the news of Chambers’ arrest for solicitation of a minor. Chambers, a leader and later renouncer of ex-gay ministry Exodus International, was arrested by the Orange County Sheriff Office in Florida on May 19. According to case details first reported by ABC affiliate Channel 9 Orlando News, Chambers is charged with three felonies after he messaged a detective posing as a 14-year-old boy.

If you grew up listening to contemporary Christian music in the mid-’90s and early-2000s, brace yourself, I am about to get a song stuck in your head. You may recall “Testify to Love,” as a bubbly, infectious CCM hit from 1997 by the pop quartet Avalon. Originally a cheery anthem to God’s love, Ty Herndon and former Avalon singer Michael Passons have re-released the song with an added layer: LGBTQ+ affirmation.

Before allegedly attempting to assassinate the president, Cole Tomas Allen reportedly wrote his motivations and answered objections in a brief, 1,000-word manifesto. The first objection was that Christians ought to turn the other cheek. “Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed,” the manifesto reads. “I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial.