It’s after midnight and before signing off from a day spent web designing my churches site in the warm glow of a 14-inch Macbook, I thought I’d head over this way to post a few weekend links but before I do, let’s all join together in sending big ol’ birthday wishes to Joni from Got [...]

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While I’m working today behind the scenes on the website for the church D and I attend, I thought it would be a good time to put a question out to everyone regarding what conversations you’d like to see here on the blog. I have some topics either already in the works or lingering in [...]

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I don’t know how much the rest of the country and world is hearing about the recent decision by the California Supreme Court, extending the fundamental right to marry to same-sex couples but understandably it’s made it’s appearance on the front page of California newspapers more than a few times since May 15th court ruling. [...]

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In the early 1950’s a network of gay and lesbian organizations began a movement to end discrimination against homosexuals known as the Homophile Movement, a term chosen for its’ emphasis on romantic relationships rather than sexual activity; phile (love) from Greek. The Homophile Movement sought to promote an acceptable image to the public so they [...]

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In recent days I’ve posted a half dozen random entries on recognizing and confronting the old messages we’ve taken in over the years on being gay and Christian in the first part of a series on Gifted by Otherness. I’m going to be getting back into the series next week with a second half focusing [...]

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Allyson over at Crossing the T wrote an excellent piece today on The Questionable Ethics of “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin.” prolific Lindsey kicked it up posts on Perceptions, Labels, and Marginalization and Are Marriage Rights “Special”? at *! [Emphatic Asterisk] and Joni at Got Authenticity? wrote from her heart again with Like A [...]

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By today most of you have probably already heard about the tragic death of Steven Curtis Chapman’s five year old daughter Maria on Wednesday. I was going to blog about it this morning (Thursday) when I first heard read the news but I was scheduled for a 13 mile training walk and so instead I [...]

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I went for my walk yesterday. Four and a half miles which translates to approximately 7945 steps, not that I was counting. I know this because my Bodybugg was counting for me. Just one of the many electronic devices I carry with me, along with my Garmin GPS, iPod, and cellphone. I hear some people [...]

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Sometime between writing the first and last line this post ballooned into some humongous albatross of a blog entry. For those of you with a life beyond this blog, which I suspect to lean heavily toward the majority of you, the first couple paragraphs are the real heart of what I intended to say. [...]

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If you’ve been following my blogging patterns over the past couple months you’ve noticed there is no blogging pattern. When my head, heart and hands are all in alignment I write. When they aren’t, I’m looking for the best price on two-ply toilet paper and tossing the contents of the food pantry into a saute [...]

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