On my best days, I’m grateful for my journey out of conservative evangelicalism. On other days, these are the things I miss the most:
I’m Glad I Got Out, and I Miss it Like Hell.
Tag: LGBTQ Teens
10 Talking Tips for Better Allyship
The following is a list of practical, everyday tips to improve our allyship to God’s beloved queer and trans children.
Que(e)ry: Faith and Sexuality – How Do I Begin?
I’ve yet to hear of a heterosexual person being told to “try” homosexuality in order to confirm their straightness.
I Read This Sh*t So You Don’t Have To: Jackie Hill Perry
Don’t look for answers from those who haven’t even inquired.
Sabotaging the Empire
Some of us may be yearning for the kin-dom but frustrated by jobs, family, communities, or circumstances that feel more like the Empire. But like the Galen Ersos and the magi of our lives, we also have opportunities to sabotage the Empire through our daily efforts...
Ada’s Sermon: Joy in the Time of Herod
To hear a recording of this sermon that I had the honor to share at HopeGateWay last week, click here. The sermon is approximated below as text:
Are People of Color More Homophobic?
Taiwan used to be the first Asian nation poised to ratify same-sex marriage. Last month, however, Taiwan succumbed to the effects of $33 million spent to defeat the nation’s ballot measure to ratify same-sex marriage.
5 Questions to Help You Leave or Stay in Your Non-Affirming Church
If you are an LGBTQ Christian discerning whether to stay in or leave your non-affirming community, I hope the following five questions help you find your way.
Queer Christians: We Also Need the Church
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 disappointed others in church. Church costs time, energy, and money. It asks me to make choices I don’t want to make and to interrogate those choices thereafter. Zora’s good at most of this. Me, I’ve got farther to go.
And that’s why I belong here.
“So, what are you two, like roommates?”
Zora Ada and I had an uncomfortable Lyft ride this summer. We were headed home well after midnight, weary from a long series of flights. A middle-aged white man picked us up at the baggage claim, and he and Ada exchanged the usual post-airport pleasantries. (I usually sit back and let her do the talking.) [...]
