(Love) rejoices in the truth. (1 Corinthians 13:6 NRSV) Truth and morning become light with time. (Ethiopian proverb) Like age, taxes, and death, the truth always seems to catch up to us. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, whether it’s only till the morning’s
Faith Cover Stories God’s Practical Jokes, Or a Lesson in Faith By Candace Chellew I often shake my fist at God for God’s little pranks on me. I know they are not malicious and often help me in the end, but the irony sometimes is
For the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender person, life has never been particularly easy. We live in societies in which ignorance, and a subsequent fear of those who are different, have led to destructive myths about who we are and what our lifestyles involve. We
The nine words that serve as the title to this article are framed and hang on my bedroom wall, just across from my bed; I see them first thing every morning when I wake up, and as I exit the door to my room preparing
Hello, I’m Nichole Letitia, and I’m Transgender. When I first realized these feelings and emotions about who I am, I was only 5 years old. Over the years I had much difficulty dealing with the emotional struggle being levied on me by those folks who
Katherine Unthank wants to apologize. She’s sorry for saying “you can’t be gay and Christian.” “There are not too many published apologies out there from the conservative Christian side,” she told me during a recent interview. “Having lived there and made the journey out of
Rev. Jimmy Creech has been without a congregation for a year. On March 13, 1998, Creech was acquitted by a jury of 13 Methodist ministers on charges that he disobeyed the United Methodist Church by blessing the union of two lesbians in September of last
Editor: Dear Editor, I am writing in response to A Letter of Love to The Rev. Fred Phelps by Rev. Tim Collier, published in the January/February 1999 edition of Whosoever. Had it not been for its title, I would not have been aware that the
You are the salt of the earth. but if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by people. You are the light of the world. A
Hope Cover Stories Esqueertology: Gay Christians’ Right To Hope By Candace Chellew The most powerful word ever used by Jesus was “whosoever” and that means gay believers have a place in the ultimate plan of God. Despite all the despair and seeming hopelessness faced by