I didn’t attend church growing up. When I was 9, I accepted Jesus in the Good News Club that was held down the street from where my family lived. I attended GNC for 3 years after that. The teachers (”my spiritual parents”), had to discontinue the club due to health reasons. I call them my [...]

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I am a Christian Lesbian. I have had one partner my entire life and the Lord has richly blessed us in our marriage, which will reach the 12 year mark in June of 1999.
For 9 of the 12 years that we have been together, I struggled terribly in my attempt to reconcile my sexuality and [...]

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“God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.”
–Rainer Marie Rilke, “Book of Hours”
Introduction
I consider my candidacy for the Boston University School of Theology to be a [...]

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Ever feel like a black sheep sitting in a pew on Sunday morning? I have and it doesn’t feel good. I always felt more guilty and down on myself after having attended church. My solution - I stopped going. I was fed up with the hypocrisy and of having those authoritarian fingers forever pointing at [...]

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Discovering I was a gay woman arrived rather early at the age of 15. I am now 37. I encountered my first relationship in high school which was both exciting and terrifying at once. Fear, confusion, love, than deep loneliness at having to keep the big secret. I actively pursued being true to my orientation [...]

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My darling daughter,
Yes, you are MY daughter, and you will always be my daughter. Your decision to find out who and what you are does not upset me, nor does it bring me any embarrassment or shame. I have always been proud of you, and this has not changed. The only thing I have ever [...]

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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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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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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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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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