C.J. Sanders’s scientific contributions

Christian sexual minority youth-adolescents with bisexual, gay, or lesbian sexual orientations-may find their faith and religious communities, depending on their individual social context, to be conduits of homonegative messages and social rejection or sources of strength and acceptance. Christian sexual minority youth frequently experience conflicts between their religious and sexual identities that complicate or prevent utilization of their religion as a source of resiliency. Wellness-related factors regarding homonegative religiosity including integration of religious and sexual identities, navigation of religious decisions, family acceptance with regard to religiosity, trauma and violence of religiously-fueled homophobia, reparative/conversion therapy, and suicidality are addressed. Considerations regarding the utilization of religious resiliency, including the GRACE Model, are offered as a means of assessing and integrating religious identity with Christian sexual minority youth.