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… It Gets Your Own Kind of Better 15 Oct 201815 Oct 2018 Ada It’s been a year since we began writing the blog we now call Queering the Kindom. Thank you for being with us. However long you’ve been with us, we’re…
Coming Out… “So, what are you two, like roommates?” 1 Oct 20181 Oct 2018 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…
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… Ada Got Published: Searching for Hope Through a Mother-Daughter Story 3 Sep 2018 Zora Earlier this month, Ada got published in Inheritance Magazine, a publication with "Asian and Pacific Islander stories, experiences, and reflections that affirm API identity and contribute to a more inclusive and…
Ada… Learning the Long Way to Love Your Queer Self 20 Aug 201820 Aug 2018 Ada Recently, I read an interview with a stranger, and it included this: Social media changed the game. Before the Internet, I didn’t know anybody else with a disability. I…
Ada… Why Did I Say “I Do”? 23 Jul 201820 Jul 2018 Ada There’s a picture I drew as a child of what I imagined my life to be when I was 30. In it, I had a leashed greyhound, a cute…
For Our Allies… Insidious Heteronormativity & How YOU Can Stop It! 9 Jul 20189 Jul 2018 Zora Now that Pride month is over in the U.S. (boo!), all our favorite stores are back on their cis-/heteronormative sales train. Yesterday I passed by some coffee mugs branded…
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,…
