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The Space Between Us Is In-Between Space

“I don’t even know why she is here, she isn’t even really gay.” As I heard a gay male staff member speak these words about a bisexual volunteer at a prominent LGBTQ youth community center, I began to recognize the truly in-between space in which

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Barriers to Authentic Sexuality

Sexually intact and emotionally healthy people really don’t care what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes! And sexually intact and emotionally healthy people don’t in any way demean Gay people or seek to deprive Gay people of civil rights that accrue

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Letters to the Editor

Editor: I am often in the position of defending homosexuality among my Christian peers. I always wonder why? Why do they see a difference and why do they feel compelled to use Jesus to back them up on their fear and hate? Why are they

Tealight Candle on Human Palms

Lighten Up!

I couldn’t even see my hand in front of my face, it was so dark. My partner and I were standing deep inside the bowels of a mountain in Montana. One of the excursions we had taken on this day of our vacation was to

Tealight Candle on Human Palms

Shine, Don’t Explain

“He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light.” (John 1:8 HCSB) John was sent to talk to people. To wash them in the river and get them ready. Ready for what? The radically life-changing grace and forgiveness that Jesus was

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The Opportunity To Shine

“No one after lighting a lamp puts it under a bushel basket, but on the lamp stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and

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Unnatural Acts

On May 4, 2009 the BBC’s top stories included the headline “‘Gay man’ disinterred in Senegal.” The article told how a gay man died and was buried in a Muslim cemetery, only to be disinterred twice. In the first instance his body was left outside

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Santa Sightings!

Here he comes again…that robust, jolly fellow with his sleigh full of gifts! We all know (spoiler alert!) that Santa isn’t “real.” That our gifts really come from people who love us. But in their own way, they, too, are a manifestation of the love

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Volume 14, Issue 3

Giving Our All Cover Stories With All Our “Mite” By Rev. Candace Chellew Like the widow’s devotion to an institution that would deprive her of every earthly comfort, LGBT people who have persisted in staying part of the Christian church may seem crazy to people