I, a Christian, feel that we Christians too often fail in these eight ways: (more…) Read more
I, a Christian, feel that we Christians too often fail in these eight ways: (more…) Read more
This is Carlos Vigil, of Valencia County, New Mexico, just south of Albuquerque: Here’s another picture of him: (more…) Read more
The other day I tweeted, The diff b/w LGBT affirming & LGBT welcoming is the diff b/w “Welcome!” and “Welcome, you abomination! Did you bring money? (Tweet that yourself.) It brought the usual fusillade of fussing. So I thought I’d take a quick moment to elaborate. (more…) Read more
Remember Colby Martin, the young pastor whose story I shared in Pastor Fired for LINKING to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Article? The one who, for doing nothing more than posting a link on his Facebook page to a completely innocuous story about the abolishment of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” law, was fired from the church he’d dedicatedly spent the previous five years growing and building? (more…) Read more
A few people have asked me (some kindly, some … not so much) how I reconcile my kind and loving thoughts about my dad after he died (i.e., My Dad Died Today), with the sometimes less warm feelings about him that I expressed before he went to that big Dad lounge-chair in the sky. (more…) Read more
Today, as she and I sat alone together overlooking the view from our front patio, my wife Catherine, from quite deep in her ruminations, said, “You know what the deal is, don’t you?” (more…) Read more
Hey John, I recently read your article What Does a Woman Mean When She Says, “I Need Space”? It really made me want to reach out and contact you, to see what kind of advice of you would give me. (more…) Read more
One never hears the principal truth about Dan Savage used to describe him, which is that he is a moralist of the first order. Besides being that rarest of persons, an original thinker, the founder of the It Gets Better phenomenon is also frightfully brave, ridiculously articulate, exhaustively informed, and wizened by over twenty years spent publicly giving people (ahem) no-holes-barred sex advice. (more…) Read more
Hi, guys. As I write it’s 4 p.m. sunny/ridiculously hot today California time. What a week! (more…) Read more
As you’re probably by now aware, today the Supreme Court declared a 1996 law denying federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples (the shamefully named Defense of Marriage Act) unconstitutional. (more…) Read more
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