…when statistics show that as many as 40% of the nation’s homeless youth are gay or transgender, compared to 3-5% of the overall youth population, we have to acknowledge that we’re facing a crisis. The disparity suggests that gay and transgender youth stand a much
You’ve got to be taught To hate and fear, You’ve got to be taught From year to year, It’s got to be drummed In your dear little ear You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose
Oral Roberts University’s GLBT alums If ever one needed proof that GLBT people are everywhere, in every institution, office, school, business or otherwise, the GLBT alumni group ORU-OUT proves the theory conclusively. Formed as a support group for alumni of Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Oral Roberts University, ORU-OUT
Recently I received e-mail from a 14-year-old lesbian who is struggling with rejection from her parents and her fundamentalist church. Where do GLBT teenagers turn for spiritual help when their own parents and churches turn against them? Where do you turn for spiritual resources that
Greetings, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! Being young, gay, and Christian doesn’t seem to be a reality for some people. But I’m living proof! It isn’t the easiest thing to be. I thought being a Christian is hard. Try being “Young, Gay
Hello? Hello? Click! Why is it that so many Christians prank call our Heavenly Father? Can you imagine what it must have been like when Moses had hiked all the way up Mount Sinai to find that cooky bush that just kept burning? I imagine
So, you are probably asking yourself, “Who or what is an Elihu?”. Well, I am. And you can be too. Elihu was a young and powerful man of God who challenged Job and his friends. In Chapter 32:6-21 of the book of Job, Elihu says
Lesbian and gay youth are sometimes called names, humiliated and even beat up in high school simply for being different. In most cases, these abused teens have only two options: live with it or drop out. But a one-of-a-kind school in the heart of the