This seems a reasonable question for any gay or lesbian Christian to ask, particularly when so many within the Christian church have said and done all they can to let GLBTQ people know just how unwelcome and unwanted they are, unless of course, they consent to denying or repenting of their sexual orientation…
…and certainly I’m [...]

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This articles was written in response to the events that unfolded in February 2004 during a brief window of time when the City of San Francisco issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
My partner and I, together for four years, have met dozens of gay and lesbian couples over the last week who have been together [...]

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This article was written by Paul Cahill and is reprinted at this site with the permission of the author.
Most protagonists against the gay experience begin with a simple premise: Gay people are miserable, whether they know it or not; the life style(s) of gay people run the gamut of everything that is tawdry, seamy and [...]

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I wrote this article for LOGOS, the student publication for Pacific School of Religion (PSR) in the Spring of 2003 during my graduate studies. I’ve posted it here with the hope it would lead to personal reflection for all of us located within a more progressive or liberal Christian context.
I was a fundamentalist Christian for [...]

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This message was presented during a “Coming-Out” service at Pacific School of Religion in the Fall of 2002 by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS). Click here for the audio transcript.
My name is Anita. I’m a third year student here at Pacific School of Religion, seeking ordination in [...]

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healing and reconciliation are not only what we offer to the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered person who walks through the doors of our faith community, but ultimately they are the gifts we give ourselves. By enlarging our embrace, we enlarge our own capacity to be embraced by the passionate love and holy presence of God among us. By being a voice of reconciliation to others, God’s voice calls those alienated places within us to new and uncharted levels of reconciliation. By being a hand of healing to another, God touches the hidden places within us that yearn desperately for healing. We all need to be recipients of healing and reconciliation, not because we are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or straight, but because we are human.

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Many who have come out as a Christian Lesbian feel in the beginning as if they’re all alone. I thought that myself for a long time. “I’m the only one! I’m the only person on the entire planet who is gay and loves Jesus.” Once I came out I was certain I’d be isolated from [...]

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At each and every moment in our lives We do one of two things. Either we tell the truth all the time, all the way Or we do something else. This something else, no matter how neatly disguised, is called lying. And the better the reasons we have for our lies, The more firmly we [...]

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A Sermon by Jay Emerson Johnson, Programming and Development Director at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry, presented on National Coming Out Day at Pacific School of Religion, 2005.
According to Genesis, the beauty and wonders of creation came out of a formless void.
Abraham, our ancient ancestor in faith, came out [...]

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I would like to speak especially to those of you who suffer apparent pain and lack of reconciliation about being both lesbian and Christian.
I could sit here and use a scientific method of proofs and logic to dispel your fears of this being a “sin”, yet somehow I feel that such evidence is not what [...]

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