I’m struggling. I don’t know why I waited so long to ask for help. It’s odd how growing up I felt so close to God. When no one knew I was a lesbian. Then when I came out it was as if I hadn’t believed in God at all. All the things I said about [...]

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This wonderful cartoon is by David Hayward of nakedpastor. I’ve been following David’s blog for some time. David is a pastor up in New Brunswick, Canada, a musician, artist, and a genuine, nice guy. David shares with great honesty about his doubts, questions, struggles and joys of being a man, a father, a Christian, [...]

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At some undetermined moment in history, slightly after the ink dried on the first run edition of Johann Gutenberg’s Bible and before last Tuesday, it was decided that every focus group needed their own translation of the Bible. I’m inclined to believe this has a little less to do with providing tools for the spiritual [...]

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Daniel Ladinsky is an American poet who creates contemporary interpretations from the writings and poems of ancient spiritual mystics. I love his poems. They have emotion and heart, the language is wonderful, and they can be both funny and incredibly tender. And okay, they’re short in length and I’m all about the short poems. Long [...]

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I was the only girl I knew whose grandma had two kitchens. There was the kitchen on the main floor of my grandparents farm house and then there was the downstairs kitchen, Grandma’s cookie kitchen, warmed by double ovens and bathed in the sweet baked smells of banana cupcakes and yeasty sourdough breads, but mostly [...]

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I’m only telling you what the Bible says…
The Bible couldn’t be more clear in its condemnation of homosexuality.
This isn’t my view, it’s Gods.
Homosexuality is a sin. God said it, I believe it, that settles it.
Any of these sound familiar? Did you hear them from a family member? A friend? A pastor? The view [...]

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Welcome everyone and we do mean everyone!
You’ve safely arrived at the new digs of SisterFriends Together, a new day and direction in the life of christianlesbians.com. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the world of blogging then give me a couple paragraphs to pass along some basic info before you wander off [...]

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I’m struggling. I don’t know why I waited so long to ask for help. It’s odd how growing up I felt so close to God. When no one knew I was a lesbian. Then when I came out it was as if I hadn’t believed in God at all. All the things I said [...]

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We are SisterFriends. We are the church.
We are conservative. We are progressive. We are evangelical. We are liberal. We are seeking, searching and emerging. We have found the Answer. We are content to live in the questions.
We light candles and sing Georgian chants in the scented haze of burning incense. We sing “Amazing Grace” and [...]

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Christian. Lesbian.
It’s not a contradiction. Neither are you.
When I wrote that phrase some time ago and as I write this post today I’m thinking of you who believe there’s no such thing as a “Christian lesbian.” You consider the term to be a contradiction of terms but more than that, you regard it an offense [...]

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