Don’t Hang Up
Don’t hang up, I’m not a heckler. I NEED your help but I can’t tell you my name. I’m in a phone booth while mom buys groceries, so I won’t take long. I heard your talk show and I’m scared. Last summer, when I was
Don’t Ignore Me
Please don’t ignore me. I am here, and I am a part of the human race, but most people don’t know what to do with me, nor do they understand who I am. You see, I am asexual. Now, I admit, I’m not discriminated against.
Gay Pride 101
The LAGGP (Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade) is an experience that no one should miss. It’s kind of like that old saying, “See Paris and die.” Well folks I guess I can check out now, I have seen Paris – Paris Hilton – and almost
Out of the Shadows
It was three years ago and I was a freshman at Earlham College, a Quaker liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Like every other freshman, I had mixed feelings of excitement about all the new people, clubs, and the independence, as well as a little
Dear Dr. Dobson
This letter was read as the opening for the May 2, 2005 Soulforce Colorado Springs Action against James Dobson & Focus on the Family. Sometimes a life is a prayer. Seven weeks ago, at this moment only a few miles from here, my 58-year-old friend
When Faith Becomes a Verb
There exists an “unwritten rule” about topics of conversation in the workplace: “Thou shalt avoid conversations concerning religion or politics, or both.” Given the “loaded issues” that are often associated with these two topics, and especially in recent years, I have (at least in the
Those Christians
Gracious Christianity. As I thought of the theme for this issue of Whosoever, images popped up in my mind: a former close friend who is a missionary to Togo. I say “former friend” because when I came out to her several years ago, she said,
Revenge of the Blob?
It would be easy for me to write yet another rant about the ungraciousness of the Religious Right. I’ve done it many times before, and will likely do it again. I’m told I do it very well, and it’s pretty much what people expect of
Gracious Christianity
A man was walking across a bridge one day, and saw another man standing on the edge, about to jump off. The first man immediately ran over and said “Stop! Don’t do it!” “Why shouldn’t I?” he said. The man said, “Well, there’s so much
Ha!
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings for the Third Sunday after Pentecost: Genesis 18:1-15, Romans 5:1-5 According to a recent newspaper report, bouncers stopped a visitor on the way into a club in Germany because she was 80-years-old. The woman tried to slip past