Editor’s note: Since this essay was written, Transgender Awareness Week has emerged as a weeklong celebration leading up to Transgender Day of Remembrance. The Transgender Day of Remembrance is an important day. Every year on November 20th we gather to mourn those who are murdered
The word “Transgender” has acquired an importance to me that I never could have predicted. I now recognize its meaning, its true meaning, as the key to Gay identity. Transgender refers to people who transcend biological gender. It has nothing to do with the idea
In his book, “In Our Time,” Eric Hoffer who was an excellent philosopher, was self-educated, blind for the first fifteen years of his life, and became a migrant worker and then a longshoreman, wrote the following: “In the alchemy of man’s soul almost all noble
It’s been haunting the church for decades. It’s an issue the Roman Catholic Church is currently dealing with in the way any international corporation would. What we’re seeing in the current discussions of priestly abuse of their positions sexually and the standard institutional cover-up, is
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.” -Joan Rivers I’ve often began some of the writings I have contributed with some odd quotations from unexpected sources that may not immediately come to mind or
Luke 12:11-12: When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worryabout how you are to defend yourselves or what you are to say; for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what you ought to say.
A young gay man who is a student at a evangelical Christian university is anxious. He lives in the constant fear that somehow, from someone, word will get out that he likes guys. He’s anxious, indeed, fearful, that the administration of the university will learn
I, for one, am getting tired of troubled times. Especially tiresome is the mass-manipulation that tells us to worry even more than we might otherwise. “Boooo!” the official opinion-makers keep telling everyone. “Be very, very angry…and very afraid!” Fear reaches a certain threshold, and then
In the movie “Evan Almighty,” God, in the form of Morgan Freeman, has only begun his mission to convince Evan, played by Steve Carell, that his mission in life is to build an ark for an upcoming flood. God is preparing Evan for his special
Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, S.C., April 24, 2010 Garden of Grace United Church of Christ, Columbia, S.C., April 25, 2010 Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter: I shall not want… (Psalm 23) I know them and they follow me. (John 10:22-30) Back in 1953, Leonard