Christian rock star Vicky Beeching comes out as gay: An RNS interview

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Jonathan Merritt

Christian musician Vicky Beeching has written songs that have reached Gold status and hit the top 100 iTunes chart. But now the 35-year-old British musician is singing a different song about her sexuality. Beeching told “The Independent” that she is gay in an interview published on Wednesday.

Beeching’s star has risen in recent years as a regular commentator on the BBC and Sky News. She also has a PhD from Oxford and has been influential in the Anglican Church’s debates on gender. She told me she plans to be involved in the two-year conversational process on sexuality happening within the Church of England, and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was one of the first people she told she was gay. (She’s scheduled to have dinner at Lambeth Palace next week for dinner with the Welbys.) Beeching also says she plans to write a book–perhaps two–about her personal journey and what she believes the Bible teaches about sexuality.

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