Brian’s Story P2
Last week, I told you that looking for “the perfect” explanation of the clobber passages was ultimately unfulfilling. It didn’t inspire confidence in my theology, it didn’t do anything to relieve my...
View ArticleLGBT Christian Respectability Politics Have Got To Go
The lesbian and gay Christian conversation (with occasional comments about bisexual and transgender folks) seems to finally be hitting its peak. Everywhere you turn these days there are new books and...
View ArticleThe Sin of Pride
Growing up pride felt like the worst of all of the sins. Well, I mean, other than the sins that involved whispers sex and bodies. Pride was the worst of the sins that we felt that good Christians were...
View ArticleGrief and Resurrection: A Sermon for Transgender Day of Remembrance
Based on Ezekiel 37:1-14 and John 11:1-46. Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day set aside each year to remember those who were killed in the past year because of their gender identity or...
View ArticleTransgender Day of Remembrance
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day set aside to honor the lives of all of those who were killed in the last year because of their gender identity/expression. The following is a sermon I...
View ArticleHow can LGB People Be Better Allies?
Someone on twitter asked “how can the lesbian, gay, and bisexual communities be better allies to the transgender community?” I want to state, up front, that there are transgender people who are...
View ArticleWe Were Never Meant To Survive
A sermon given for Pride Sunday. The text is: Luke 4:1-22 I am honored to get to preach today, a day that celebrates the contributions of the LGBTQ community to this church and to the larger world....
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How Buffy Saved My Life
When I was just coming out (to myself, if not to anyone else) my life felt hopeless. I was working in a church where I couldn’t be out, living with my mom, and feeling like my faith was fraying at the...
View ArticleWhat Gay Porn Taught Me About Faith
That’s when it all came crashing down. Before then, I could brush it off. I was just excited to make a new friend, I was just looking for new clothes in the catalogue, or I was being a good Christian...
View ArticlePraying For Revival
Every year all the of the churches in the fellowship I grew up in would send their youth groups to a large youth conference. Each day included several sessions with speakers, youth group time, free...
View ArticleThe World Will Not Be Saved By Bumper Sticker Slogans (Even Though I Once...
It’s one of my favorite times of the summer; I’m packing to head to our national youth conference. A whole slew of evangelical teenagers coming together for a week of worship, sermons, service...
View ArticleA Journaling Practice
I don’t know when, exactly, I started keeping a journal. The first one I have still in my possession is from when I was 12. It starts with these words, “Today I am at my cousin’s house. It is very...
View ArticleWilling Thin Places Into Being
I was first introduced to the concept of “thin places” by reading the fiction of Madeleine L’Engle and Stephen R. Lawhead. It’s a concept drawn from Celtic spirituality that says there are particular...
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