My faith was a lost cause over 40 years ago. In fact I wonder if I ever had any. Is belief in something or other faith? I suppose I believed in God but did that constitute a ‘faith’? A belief should manifest itself in something
As I read my local newspaper or even thumb through my lesbian magazines, I find that my GLBT brothers and sisters are facing a crisis of faith. Our families and their churches shunned us for our homosexuality. We turned our backs on the Church and
I am faced with two inescapable facts: I am Christian, and I am gay. My religious upbringing from the day I was born has been in the Christian faith. It is my heritage and my tradition. My parents’ church was quite conservative. We were told
Hello, I’m Nichole Letitia, and I’m Transgender. When I first realized these feelings and emotions about who I am, I was only 5 years old. Over the years I had much difficulty dealing with the emotional struggle being levied on me by those folks who
A 21-year old college student is brutally beaten by two men, and left hanging on a Wyoming fencepost. His eventual death is labeled a hate crime, since the young man was gay. His attackers say they only meant to rob him, as if somehow, that
Come, dream a dream with me; come dream a dream with me; come dream a dream with me; that I might know your mind; And I’ll give you hope, when hope is hard to find; and I’ll bring a song of love, and a rose
I am convinced that not death or life, not even angels, not politicians (rulers), not things in the present or things in the future, not force, not highs or lows, and not any other created thing will be able to cut us off from the
Alcoholics Anonymous is a wonderful recovery program which was originally founded on strong Christian principles. Many chapters rigorously maintain those principles. However, many other chapters have substituted the words “higher power” for God in the 12 steps to recovery. This “higher power” can be anything
As Christians we hold a universal hope in our belief that Christ died for our sake; that in His death and resurrection we are forgiven of our sins and granted eternal life in Him. As Gays, Lesbians, Transsexuals and Bisexuals our hope is put to
Why is it that we as gay and lesbian Christians continue to hope beyond hope? I believe this is the basis of faith. “To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.”