Conversations about being Christian and gay in America
God of our hearts, we search our shared sky for the rainbow of your unwavering love to arch over our hearts when the pain of unimagiable loss swirls and thrashes us to dust. Oh please Abba, shelter those whose lives have been blown into the abyss that they may know your peace after the storm in [...]
“Fear is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the dispossessed, the disinherited…deception is perhaps the oldest of all the techniques by which the weak have protected themselves against the strong.” Howard Thurman. “Archery, definitely archery – and ropes-course and kayaking and dance, can I sign up for dance [...]
Have you seen this headline? Texas Judge Forbids Lesbian Woman From Living With Her Partner Have you read the story (quoted in full below) written by By Ian Millhiser of ThinkProgress? Carolyn Compton is in a three year-old relationship with a woman. According to Compton’s partner Page Price, Compton’s ex-husband rarely sees their two children and was also once [...]
Openly straight pastor officiates big ole straight wedding Openly straight pastor steals money from congregation Openly straight cop killed intervening in a domestic violence call Open straight cop accepts cash to look the other way on drug buy Openly straight baseball player funds local community center Openly straight baseball player caught in bed [...]
When I was a little girl growing up just a minute south of downtown Atlanta, I could while away a southern spring day sitting all itchy and engrossed in a sprawling, weedy bed of clover looking for that four-leaf foliage assured to grant me good luck. What a sweet moment of wide-eyed joy when my [...]
I am a writer. I use my words. I try real hard to use my words for good. On April 28 I lost some of my words. Some of those words that I lost comprised two book proposals and the carefully crafted query letters ready to go out this week. I know it is a long [...]
As I gaze upon the Spring green Ginkgo leaves that dance in the April breeze I can remember and foresee the exquisitely painful beauty of these tiny fans in the fall of the golden perfection that has been and will be So too I imagine I pray I believe that Christ knows us as we [...]
Friday, April 19 is the National Day of Silence sponsored by GLSEN. It is a day of action in which students across the US vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students in schools. But what can old [...]
Gracious and loving God hear our anguished prayers For your children whose lives were taken For your children whose families were devastated For your children whose minds are capable of such evil For your children whose hearts are searching for answers immediate and eternal Speak oh God through the hands and feet of first responders Hear oh God [...]
Last Monday I attended a meeting of a small, conservative campus ministry group featuring a speaker, Jana Harmon from the C.S. Lewis Institute in Atlanta, who was invited to share “what the bible says about homosexuality.” What I want to tell you about is just how downright misleading, deceptive, poorly cited and falsely polarizing the [...]
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