Not only do many Americans have bad taste, but they seem to love nothing better than celebrating it. Here in the Homeland of Security, we have never been renowned for our refined sensibilities. Though the vaudeville circuit of the early Twentieth Century honed the talents
Although I have been “out” for just over eight years, I truly feel that Whosoever is helping me to complete my coming-out process. How is it doing this? By helping me to find community (cyber-community, at any rate) with other GLBT people whose hearts and
About 6 years ago, I wrote an article still published on Whosoever titled Christians and Disputable Matters with the by-line of William Stephenson. I write this article as Virginia Stephenson, having transitioned to female in 2001. My journey in gender crossing has truly been a
First Reading: Psalm 94 Gospel Reading: Luke 4:18-19 Inclusive Love: Its time has come Given the increasingly strident professing Christian voices condemning same-sex relationships, and LGBT people in general, it is certainly timely and appropriate to honor those who are sinfully demonized and, in one
As the coauthor of a book on homosexuality and the Bible, I’m often asked to speak to groups. Usually, I try to get them to let me talk about the affirming passages — the centurion and his slave, the Ethiopian eunuch, Hathach the messenger —
First Congregational United Church of Christ, Cannon Falls, Minn. Bill grew up in Beloit, WI and Fort Wayne, IN. He was the oldest son of a Congregationalist minister and his wife, and he loved the church. All through his growing up, he sang in the
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings for the First Sunday of Advent: O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence — as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to
For me, knowing God means having a relationship with God. To wrap my mind around this, I sometimes think about what it means to know and be known by my mother. Not Having All the Facts Although my mother and I have known each other
We were picking blackberries in Franklin, Georgia. He was on one side of the bush and I was on the other. I looked up and said “Dad, I am gay.” He looked directly at me through the thorny branches, heavy with berries. “Well, you can’t
The book of Proverbs tells us that “Pride goeth before a fall.” In the case of Black Gay Pride celebrations, Pride will go on before the fall and throughout the fall, from July through October, as thousands of African-American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)