Part 3 of 3 If you’d met me a few years ago, you’d have met someone who loved God. But I was afraid of Him too. I didn’t call it fear back then. That freedom began the day I realised something quietly revolutionary: God is
Part 2 of 3 I didn’t grow up hearing lots of different views about sexuality. I grew up hearing one. It was presented as settled. Clear. Biblical. Not something you explored, but something you accepted — and certainly not something you questioned. Over time, I learned the
Part 1 of 3 After a lifetime shaped by fear, faith, and silence, one journey home revealed what had been quietly true all along: God had never left me. I am writing this from my apartment in France. In November, I married my partner, Caroline.
I have to use the bathroom, so I excuse myself from the table and head toward the nearest restroom. Finally, relief. I linger at the sink, letting the water run over my hands a little longer than needed. It’s my favorite socially acceptable escape when
Just about seven years ago, our family had the privilege to get to know our child more deeply than we had ever known him. Our son, at the time our daughter, came out to us as transgender. While that took some explaining to understand, we
It’s hard, is what it is. I don’t think it really matters much what it is that we’re letting go. As humans, we like our families, our communities, our stuff. Yet, what happens when we have to let go of an image, a memory, a
Dear Bro, Even at age 65, life remains so interesting, and things manage to keep changing faster than I can keep up. I’ve been reflecting on life a lot lately. Something about being this age and being able to collect Social Security has prompted it.
Dear Bro, Have you ever thought about the things we know now only by our efforts to understand ourselves and our environment? For instance, when I think about what our mother could have shared with me about the process of becoming a young woman (and
Dear Bro, In the dictionary there are two distinct definitions of perspective. One deals with the way we can draw an object to make it look like it has dimensions — in other words, so the eye will perceive, say, an object in a picture
Dear Bro, As you know, I love to listen to music, especially when I’m working. I like to put Pandora on shuffle and listen to 15 different channels because I love the variety, and I just love music of all kinds. As I was listening