Ed Madden

On Learning To Hate Yourself

Cortney Maki

The Dawn of a New Beginning

Peace Through Pride

I Was Wrong: Rethinking Anti-Gay Scripture

Our Judgments of Morality

HIV-AIDS and The Congregation of the Dead

How to Transcend the Spiritual Sufferings of the Wilderness Experience

A Message of Grace to a Roman Catholic Priest

Forgiveness Versus Acceptance

Never Be Angry at God

Idolatry is the Source of Much Fear

God Is at the Center of Your Life

Don't be a Coward

Is Faith Enough?

Religion Can Be a Dangerous Thing

You Don't Have to Like Anybody

Being Gay is a Gift from God

Queering the Gospel - Part 1

Queering the Gospel - Part 2

Queering the Gospel - Part 3

Are Denominations Desirable?

The Issue of Marriage Equality

Push That Rock

GLBT People and the Battle for the Bible

How to Know if We are in God's Will

Dedication of the AIDS Memorial Quilt

All Christians Must acknowledge the
All-Inclusive Love of God

The Burden of Legalism

We are Called to be Courageous

Some Talking Points on Christianity and Homosexuality

Skewed Perceptions of Christianity

My Vision for Whosoever

Some of My Remarks Regarding Christianity and Same-Sex Love

The Co-optation of Christianity

False Consciouness in the Church:
My Dialogue with a Homophobic Pastor

Some of My Remarks Regarding Christianity and Same-Sex Love

New Art Book Shows Gay Jesus and Female Christ

All Christians are Called to be Activists

Christianity and LGBT People:
A Teaching Summary

Getting Into the God Box

We are a Resurrection People

Why Every Church Must be Open and Affirming

Does the Church Experience Help Inoculate Against Christianity?

In Christianity, One Size Does Not Fit All

Why the Lack of Expressed Outrage?

Finding the Light

How to Respond to Homophobic People

Schadenfreude

Resisting "Theocracy"

Used

The Ironies of Falwell

Growth, violence, and the Coming Religious Peace

This Graced Life: Parenthood

Exercising Their Faith:
Progressive Christian Group Plans
Walk to Promote Inclusive Vision of Jesus

Meditating on Creation: A New Interpretation of Romans

Called According to God's Purpose

Texts of Terror, Texts of Hope: Teaching the Bible as Literature in a Gay-Friendly Context

An Urban Pilgrimage: Thoughts on Race,
Sexuality, and Spiritual Violence

My Death

Homosexuals and the Decline in Family Values

Metropolitan Community churches Delegation
Meets With Brazilian Minister for Human Rights

Major Same-Sex Marriage Victory in Canada

Love, Truth and Crisis

Coming Out = Born Again

Weather of Mass Destruction

Jesusless: The Church of Conservatism

Fighting the Lies of the Anti-Gay Right

The Power and Authority of Scripture

Blessings in Unexpected Places

What is the Church?

When I Think of Home:
A Personal Reflection on the Black Church

When No One Picture of HIV/AIDS

The Cost of Ignoring the Call

God Restores My Soul

How Should Lesbian and Gay Catholics Respond to the Hierarchy's Decision
to Bar Gays from the Seminaries and the Priesthood?

Coming Out as a Sacrament in Argentina: My Road to Reconciliation

Faith Can't Shatter Homosexual Love:
My Own Spiritual Journey to Understand My Faith's Religious Intolerance of Homosexuality

Mama Was Right: A Journey Home

Morality Matters

Time to March Again

Freeing Jesus: A Review of "Liberating the Gospels" by John Shelby Spong

What Easter is All About:
A Review of John Shelby Spong's "Resurrection: Myth or Reality?"

A Review of Marcus J. Borg’s 'Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time'

Standing for Integrity, Love and Equality:
A Review of Bishop John Shelby Spong's Autobiography

From Sin To Blessing

Rescuing the bible from Fundamentalism:
A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture

Bible Study: Jude 7 and Sodomy

Religious Legalism Meets Cross-dressing

Can You Pass God's Love Test?

Will You Try To Understand?

Planting Loving Seeds: Pouring the Foundation

Ministry or Repentance?

Call the Question!

Lee Frances Heller:
God's Gift to the Transgendered

Reconciling Sunday

You Are Not Alone!

Peabody and Sherman - August 2103

Are We Being True to Our Faiths?

Christians and Cross-Dressers

A Christian's Journey Through Cross-Dressing

Who Has the Truth?

An Intense Spiritual Decision

Discrimination - A Challenge We Must Meet!

Same-Sex Marriage:
A Test Case In Living Our Principles

True Confession

"Simon Says"
(a Biblical rule of thumb)

When Religion is an Addiction

A Meditation on Addictive Religion

How to Wreck a Relationship: "Be A Lady"
Part 4 of an Occasional Series After Doing Everything Right for Marriage Equality

Why Are Gay People the Way They Are?

Living in Hope When You're Not an Optimist

A Mandate to Teach Stupid Design

The Annual War of Unbelief to Sell Christmas

Why I Am Not a Democrat

If You Permit Big Enough Lies Long Enough...

Marriage Amendments Threaten Religious Freedom

Mel White's Journey Continues

Graduating from the Accelerated 'STRAIGHT 101' Class

Virginia Tech, Don Imus, and America's Seething Anger

Those June Gay Lifestyle Expos

Hiding the Family Values Gang's Sexual Addictions

There's Money, Not Bigotry in Our Genes

Let Them Hit Bottom

Why Would a Nice boy Shoot Up His School?

What Is Truth in Recent Claims about Christian Origins?

The Refugee and The Refuge

Repent, or You're Going to H-E-double-toothpicks

The God I Came To Know

So, Who's Coming Out?

Gay Morality - Yes or No?

Forgiveness - The Alpha and Omega of Peace

When God Is Silent

Blessing Those Who Curse Us

Believing is Seeing

Journey to Joy

What Does it Mean to Believe?

We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

On Becoming A Conscious Instrument of God's Will

Leviticus and The Law

Gay marriage Web site goes beyond politics
to the heart of the matter

Believing and Doing:
The President's Religion

National Gany and Lesbian Task Force and the Institute for Welcoing Resources join forces

David v. Goliath

Am I the Older Brother?

Honduran Transgender Woman Wins Asylum

The Contours of Gender

Pro-Life, Pro-Family...Anti-Adoption?

Abundant Bodies

Subsidiarity and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

Affirming Gay Marriage in the Christian Church:
A Review

Sexual Ethics for All of Us

He is Gone

This is Crucial!

The Black Insult

Strange Fruit

When Will We Get It?
A Personal Message from Katrina

Exception to the Rule

Be A Queer for Four More Years

Reflections on the Life of Coretta Scott King

Get Real -- Read the Book

Bishop-elect Robinson Shares His Spiritual journey
and Vision for the Church

Mixed reaction to New Hampshire Bishop Election

All Are Welcome?

The Good Samaritan?

A Christian Response

Morality and Me

Counting Ambiguous Blessings

Labels and Definitions and Who I Am

Pride, Shame, Humility

The Fecundity of the Barren

Reflections of a Recalcitrant Grudge-Keeper

With Feeling One: Anything Like Right

With Feeling Two: When I Think of Home

With Feeling Three: Learning on a Nervous Stomach

The Noise of God

With Feeling Four: Lessons of Spirit and Flesh

With Feeling Five: Mama

With Feeling
Six: Daddy

With Feeling
Seven: Random Thoughts on a Cluelessly Gay Childhood

The Fluid Rock of Grace

Once I Met Jesus

Not Yet

Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech
A Book Review

Joy Does Not Come Easily

Empty

So, Who's Getting Married in New Jersey?

My Debt of Gratitude to a Welcoming Church and Queer Theologians

I Felt How the Apostle Paul Must Have Felt
A Reflection on our ministry in Kenya to LGBTs

St. Francis Celebration of Animals

The Pressures of Traditional Religious Culture
Part 1 of 5

God: Above and Beyond

Young, Gay, and Christian!

Reconciling our Homosexuality -- It is possible! Part 1

Reconciling our Homosexuality -- It is possible! Part 2

Leviticus and the Holiness Code

The Love that Proudly Speaks its Name

Speak Up Against Sexual Assault!

Do Homosexuals Need to be Healed of their Homosexuality?

My Grace is Sufficient for You!

Suffering in the Service of Christ

Our Gospel of Grace

"Family Values" and Scripture: The Scandalous Story of Samson

Angry at God's Love?!?

Learning to Be Afraid the Right Way

Practicing the Presence of the Living God

The Effects of Belief: Exile and Holiness

Jesus Christ: God's Revelation of Humanity to Humanity

Love the Sinner/Hate the Sin? Definitely!

The Call of the Beloved Community: To Love the World or Just One Another?

Friendly with the Enemy

Peter and Cornelius at the MCC

Asleep in the Perils of Life

Moses at the MCC:
God's Exodus International Isn't Ex-Gay at All!

Traditional Marriage: What Is It?

Saving the World Everyday

Transformations:
Love the Enemy - Because They May Learn to Love Us!

Re-thinking Our Approach to Scripture

Into the Woods: Peace in the Wilderness

Responding to Persecution

Why Do You Stay?

UFMCC Celebrates 30 Year Anniversary

Whose God Do You Serve?

Wine and Wafer as Weapons?
The Regrettable Politics of Holy Communion

When the Spirit Moves You

A Farewell Message
Moderator, Metropolitan Community Churches

For Those Who Persecute You

Will You Go Out Without Knowing?

Be Human First!

A Holy War?

The Gospel Truth?

Opening the Gifts of Disability as a Lesbian in the Church

Are The Children Really Free?
Reexamining the Biblical Evidence on Same-sex Relationships:
A Book Review and Interview

Engaging Grace Compassionately

Being Fundamentalist

Married to a Builder

Neighbor as a Verb

TV's Leap of Faith

Book Review: "Rainbow Family Values" by: Rev. Michael S. Piazza

Mosbacher's Response: All God's Children

Book Review: Love Between Women

Walt Whitman School:
Providing Safe Space For Gay and Lesbian Youth

Healing Faith