The night my spouse and I first met, another couple in the room made bets on how long it would be before we were married. For me, it was one of those love-at-first-sight moments. He walked up to me at a Metropolitan Community Church event,
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
My journey to understanding the Bible and how it applies to my life has been a long one. As a child, my parents had me baptized in the Methodist faith and we attended church until I was 9. Often, my parents would drop me off
Now I know I am doomed. The cancellation of the show “Joan of Arcadia” is the final straw for me. After all where will I go to enrich my mind about how God infiltrates the world today? Maybe I have just been watching too much
Old wine in a new skin? In 1986 the Office of the Sacred Congregation of the Faith issued “A Pastoral Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.” The signatory of the document was (then) Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,
This letter was read as the opening for the May 2, 2005 Soulforce Colorado Springs Action against James Dobson & Focus on the Family. Sometimes a life is a prayer. Seven weeks ago, at this moment only a few miles from here, my 58-year-old friend
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
The LAGGP (Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade) is an experience that no one should miss. It’s kind of like that old saying, “See Paris and die.” Well folks I guess I can check out now, I have seen Paris – Paris Hilton – and almost
Please don’t ignore me. I am here, and I am a part of the human race, but most people don’t know what to do with me, nor do they understand who I am. You see, I am asexual. Now, I admit, I’m not discriminated against.
A wise man once said, “there are two ways to getting enough; the one way is to accumulate more things and the other is to desire less.” But desire is often difficult to curb, especially when love or lust is involved. And the problem is