Admit it. Loving LGBTQ+ relationships could be better. It’s the cultural messages about ideal relationships that actually keep us from having relationships that are all we’d like them to be. No matter how damaging these messages might be, society has little incentive to change them
The world we live in today is not only dangerous, but it makes it especially difficult to live out what Jesus commanded us to do. In a day when the Church continues to spew forth theological lies that are designed to give power to as
As I was thinking about Pride activities last month and ongoing, I had the thought that it takes a particular courage to be out and proud. Where does that courage come from? Are those individuals who truly need this particular courage aware that God backs
The standard explanation is that Pride Month commemorates the date of the Stonewall uprising in June 1969, but with time and hard-won successes, its celebrations became more like LGBTQ+ expos or commercial fairs than Stonewall-commemorating fights for acceptance and liberation. The larger ones not only
There will be parades and observances across America this Memorial Day commemorating U.S. service members who made the ultimate sacrifice. But not all service members will be honored for their acts of service, bravery, and patriotism. Back in the day, LGBTQ+ service members who died
Team Trump Just Killed a Queer Health Project Critical to My Wellbeing All of us rural queers need some attention and respect I was so happy to open an email last week from a research team studying the mental health of thousands of rural queer
Former first-lady Michelle Obama openly shared her personal thinking as she has done before on an April 23rd podcast to explain why she is again saying “No.” Like anyone else, she didn’t have to explain herself even though she’s been criticized for her choices to
Pope Francis, the “People’s Pope” and one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most beloved pontiffs, who was laid to rest today after passing into the arms of God on Easter Monday at age 88, nonetheless left behind a complicated legacy on LGBTQ+ inclusion in the
A modern-day profile in courage The nation watched with surprised shock back on January 21st at the sight of a national religious leader actually standing up for those she understands her Bible says to treat with mercy in a public rebuke to Donald Trump while
That one time when I made friends with a Christian Nationalist Preached at the Unitarian Church in Charleston, S.C. Just over a decade ago, I taught religion classes at Midlands Technical College in Columbia as an adjunct professor. One year, in my comparative religion class,