I’ve yet to hear of a heterosexual person being told to “try” homosexuality in order to confirm their straightness.
Que(e)ry: Faith and Sexuality – How Do I Begin?
Tag: Relationships
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.
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.
Why My Family Will Always Fear
"Lately, my faith has been teaching me to better embrace grief. The Bible is filled with examples of deep mourning: the loss of a homeland, the loss of political independence, the loss of a child, the loss of a Savior. These are not happy stories..."
It Gets Your Own Kind of Better
It will take the longest days and the sleeplessness, and it will take the anger and misunderstanding and the exile and the loneliness. It will take you making it through this.
“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.) [...]
Crafting the Statement on God’s Justice: Why Not Us?
It’s been a week now since the release of the Statement on God’s Justice. Over 1,000 signatures later, I ask myself what the Statement has meant and what it will mean.
Ada Got Published: Searching for Hope Through a Mother-Daughter Story
I had worried that as the sole Christian in my family, my coming out to my mother would hurt what Christians call my “witness”: the theology I live to demonstrate to others who God is. How can you be a Christian, she asked me then, if you are gay?
Learning the Long Way to Love Your Queer Self
There's a prevailing Western notion that it's only by loving yourself that you learn to love others. But self-love - and self-love first and foremost - can seem unattainable for many of us, and especially anyone who struggles with shame.
Why Did I Say “I Do”?
So, in the face of all opposition, why did I decide to get married?
