…when statistics show that as many as 40% of the nation’s homeless youth are gay or transgender, compared to 3-5% of the overall youth population, we have to acknowledge that we’re facing a crisis. The disparity suggests that gay and transgender youth stand a much
He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that
You’ve got to be taught To hate and fear, You’ve got to be taught From year to year, It’s got to be drummed In your dear little ear You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose
It might be stated that the often erroneous dichotomizing of sexual and gender categories, once experienced as not really being part of one’s self, frequently results in the need, the intense desire, to persecute that now recognized part of one’s self that often becomes projected
He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these
“The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” -Job 33:4 “Don’t forget to breathe.” My girlfriend used to say this to me quite frequently, most often when she would instinctively know that I was under stress. It
“A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.” Boy Scout Law “On my honor I will do my best To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; To help other
Read the rest of the Via Transformativa: From Glory to Glory series Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, S.C. Readings for Resurrection Sunday: You have been a refuge to the poor. (Isaiah 25:1-10) He has been raised. (Mark 16:1-8) Our first song was made popular by singer Bette
Read the rest of the Via Creativa: What Now? series Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, S.C. Readings for the Fourth Sunday in Lent: Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people. (Numbers 21:4-9) For God so loved the world… (John 3:14-21) Now faith is the assurance
“I can never forgive myself for that.” How many times have we heard someone utter those words with a genuine sense of sincerity, spoken them ourselves, or experienced that thought as a feeling? It’s a phrase that a great many of us are likely to