‘This is right, this is the future of the church’: gay black evangelist on coming out

The declaration by a highly influential black Christian gospel star that he is gay has exposed a generational divide in attitudes towards sexuality that could signal a transformation within evangelical churches.

Seth Pinnock, who founded a gospel choir and youth orchestra and was hailed by the Tony Blair Foundation as a “young leader to watch”, experienced depression, anxiety, self-hatred and drug addiction as a result of believing his sexuality was sinful.

Now, he told the Guardian,…