Over the decade I’ve been out as a lesbian, I have learned a great deal about evangelical Christians. Most of what Ive learned thats proven to be worthwhile, thats proven to be trustworthy, Ive learned from my own, personal experience. Stereotypes and groupthink have proven
Republished from Coming Out of Fundamentalist Christianity: An Autobiography Affirming Sensuality, Social Justice and the Sacred with permission of the author. Introduction In early 2005 in anticipation of my sixtieth birthday, I began working on an autobiography. Certainly, I reasoned, now entering my sixth decade, I
Reading for All Saints Day: John 11:32-45 Jesus received a message that Lazarus was sick. Jesus did not leave immediately to see Lazarus. He waited for two days before going to see Lazarus. By the time Jesus arrived, Lazarus had been dead and buried for
This is a strange story. Both those in my long-ago and faraway “straight” life and those in my world today will surely think so. It is a love story. And it recounts the experience that, perhaps more than any other, showed me who I really
For someone as touchy about being confined to cramped quarters as I am, coming out of the closet and telling my husband that I am a bisexual last year seemed like it would be a pretty freeing experience. So it was, for about five minutes.
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
This critical moment in the history of the LGBT movement’s fight for equality demands that a new generation of Americans come out of the closet-gay conservatives. Now is the time for closeted gay conservatives to find the courage and personal strength to stand up and
I love baseball, I think it appeals to me the same way Las Vegas does. There is just something about the randomness of both that gives me hope. A pull of the slot handle or bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth with two
It was three years ago and I was a freshman at Earlham College, a Quaker liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Like every other freshman, I had mixed feelings of excitement about all the new people, clubs, and the independence, as well as a little
Many straight Episcopal clergy and their spouses with gay family members aren’t all that surprised by what they see going on in the Anglican Communion these days. Members of Clergy Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (CFLAG) see the church behaving as many families do