When I saw the call for writers for this issue of Whosoever, I knew the time had come for me to answer my own call to explore who I am within the confines of a affirming congregation. After a long search for a place where
I grew up in a small town in South Carolina. My experience with Christianity was in the same Southern Baptist church my mother attended until she got married. Even in college, I still believed that the Bible was the “literal Word of God written by
Canada is in the middle of what some people would call a “holy war.” People are not being murdered, but souls are at stake. The battle over same-sex marriage is growing more heated every day, and believers on both sides of the issue claim to