Ada… Queer Christians: We Also Need the Church 12 Nov 201811 Nov 2018 Ada Church is hard. I’ve never met more people with whom I disagree and people I don’t understand than I have at church. I’ve been disappointed in church, and I’ve…
Zora Why My Family Will Always Fear 29 Oct 201829 Oct 2018 Zora I was six years old when Matthew Shepard was beaten and left for dead by two men who were tormented by his very existence as a gay man. Twenty…
Ada… Crafting the Statement on God’s Justice: Why Not Us? 17 Sep 201817 Sep 2018 Ada Two weeks ago, John MacArthur and a dozen other conservative evangelical men released a statement likening the pursuit of social justice to heresy. In addition, the statement celebrated white…
Ada… The Sacrament of the Queer Wedding: A Scrapbook 25 Jun 201825 Jun 2018 Ada Zora and I were married two years ago on a farm in a small town in Maine. That was a year and a half after I proposed to her,…
Ada… How My Keepers Kept Me: On Mental Illness & Mental Healing 11 Jun 201811 Jun 2018 Ada [cw: mental illness, depression, suicidal ideation] Note: Neither Zora nor I are mental health professionals or expert mental health advocates, and this post is not an endorsement of a…
Ada… The Devil’s in the Disappointment 14 May 201816 May 2018 Ada Last week at work, I received some advice. Ginny is the kind of friend who knows me well enough to know what hurts me the most. After witnessing someone…
Ada… Que(e)ries, Round 2: Are We Christians or Bible-Worshipers? 19 Mar 201816 Apr 2018 Ada & Zora Image description: Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore) throwing a Bible at her friend Mary (Jena Malone); a still from the movie Saved! Our Que(e)ries contact form has given us…
Church & Fellowships… How to Set a Fire & Build with the Ashes: My Story of InterVarsity, Queerness, and the Danger of “Dialogue” 26 Feb 201816 Apr 2018 Zora In Coming Out on Campus, I alluded to an upset between my alma mater’s Christian fellowship, its parent organization InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IV), and me - a queer Christian…
Ada… Memento Amare: A Post That Isn’t a Post 12 Feb 201816 Apr 2018 Ada Zora told me not to write this week. For each of us, it's been a demanding week. We ended it out of town, meeting for one night my brother…
Relationship-ing… “Sloppy Wet” or “Unforeseen”: A Need for a New Sexual Ethic 5 Feb 201819 May 2018 Zora [Content warning: discussions of sex, rape, and purity culture] ... On which side of the “sloppy wet” vs. “unforeseen” kiss debate do you find yourself? Back around 2005, John…
