Matthew Vines

Matthew Vines is the founder and executive director of The Reformation Project, an organization that advocates for the inclusion of LGBTQ Christians in evangelical churches without rejecting biblical authority. He took a leave of absence from Harvard in 2010 to research the biblical texts on same-sex relationships, and a 2012 video of his talk "The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality" went viral on YouTube.

Vines's 2014 book God and the Gay Christian became one of the most prominent examples of the "affirming" hermeneutic within the evangelical conversation about sexuality. His arguments have been answered in detail by complementarian scholars (e.g., the Southern Seminary volume God and the Gay Christian? edited by Albert Mohler), and Vines remains a central reference point in ongoing evangelical debates about marriage and sexuality.