Four months after Michael J. Sharp moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2012, he joined a small delegation that for six hours climbed a mountain in South Kivu Province to meet a leader of a major armed group.
I read with interest Harold N. Miller’s thoughtful opinion piece, “Scripture Overrules Experience” (March 27). I support his statement that an argument from experience alone on the LGBT issue “is not able to bear the weight of overturning a longstanding teaching of the church.” When striving for unity in the church, we must deal with longstanding teachings, as well as with specific scriptures that condemn certain same-sex sexual practices.