Even though I was raised as a southern baptist I never heard my church or parents debating the roles of women and men. My mother and father lived out traditional (western) roles…until my mother found a career she loved and her kids were old enough to not need a helicopter. She loved her work, we needed the money and so both of my parents worked AND my mom was still the primary in-home caregiver. My dad was and still is a very strong... Read more
I woke many a dark morning, knotted in anguish with the entirety of my cavernous being crying out for release – asking God to change me. And God did. As it turns out, the answer to my prayers was to accept God’s creative genius calling me to live into this crazy and beautiful life as a queer Christian. When I finally was able to face who I am and begin the long journey toward being who God has created me to be I experienced something radical, something... Read more
1. To put nothing before The One who is Love. 2. To not worship Mammon, The Constitution, The Bible, culture or technology (sorry Facebook). 3. To only speak God’s name when I am either talking to or about God. Ecstasy counts since it could be argued I am expressing gratitude. 4. To take at least one day out of seven completely off. We are a two-working-parent household and yes, there are jobs to do, bills to pay, groceries to buy,... Read more
In his new book, The Passionate Jesus: What We Can Learn from Jesus about Love, Fear, Grief, Joy and Living Authentically; Peter Wallace offer readers a look at five emotions that Jesus experiences in the Bible and invites us to live our own lives with “passionate emotional authenticity.” Lordy this is a breath of fresh air that breaks with an all too common depiction of a serene and dispassionate Jesus who floats coolly from one biblical scene to another. This idea... Read more
Part of my goal here with this little blog is to share other voices living at the intersection of being gay and Christian in America. I mean I love the sound of my own voice as much as the next blogger, but I said in the beginning of this project that it’s not all about me, well, unless it is. A little over a week ago there was a little event called Emergence Christianity: A National Conversation with Phyllis Tickle and... Read more
Sitting in the Martin Luther King Jr Convocation at the college where I work, watching a film clip from the Freedom Riders documentary, experiencing a sound wave of drumming as it moved from the back of the auditorium, and hearing the Rev. C.T. Vivian share powerful insights, I was moved to tears that cascaded out of a tired and broken heart. Through those saltly jewels I was released from my existential ennui and thankfully moved back to a palpable hunger for passionate, committed, visionary, intentional... Read more
Oh Lord We are a culture In love with fear And afraid of love Be not afraid, you call Many of the same souls Who shout With closed minds And plugged ears That the government Shall not have any role In regulating Weapons Be afraid, they say Are the same souls Who demand With closed hearts And clenched fists That the government Shall have the ultimate role In regulating Love Be very afraid, they say For without our guns To... Read more
Jodie Foster came out last night but she really came out a long time ago. In her own way. I bet I am gonna get some serious flak from a few of my queer sisters & brothers but hey, that’s what blogs are for eh? Speaking your own truth and letting the chips fall where they may. I understand and respect how Ms. Foster has chosen to conduct her career. But guess what, even if I didn’t, who the hell... Read more
And then there are the nights when I toss and turn, worried that I’m wasting my time, passion and faith scribbling notes in cyberspace when I could just shut the hell up and earn some blisters serving a sick, poor, oppressed, imprisoned, widowed, orphaned, abused, raped, exhausted world. Every so often I am nagged by the conviction that I’m merely playing with a worn out set of theological tinker toys while others (like local folks at the Open Door in Atlanta,... Read more
Pet lovers come from all walks of life – gay, straight, black, white, man, woman, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Agnostic and Pagan. We all have animals in our lives that make us whole. For many of us they complete us in ways that humans can not. They love us unconditionally and they are there for us in some of our darkest hours, even when our humans have left us. The major news blogs use cute anumal slide shows as a way to generate... Read more
Kimberly Knight
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