Oh. I forgot one widdle biddy piece of the story. In John 11 the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead plays all the way out from sickness to death to grave to new life. The chapter ends with the Sanhedrin gathering to discuss the problem of Jesus and ultimately determining to take his [...]

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I know. I know. It took Jesus less time to raise Lazarus from the dead that it’s taking me to write about it. Brevity has never been a gift of mine, but we’ll get to the end eventually. Lazarus has been dead four days and it wasn’t forest-scented potpourri filling the air. (vs. 39) Without [...]

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Lazarus came out of the grave, not out of the closet. He was dead, not gay. I, on the other hand, am gay and when I read and reflect on the words of Scripture it becomes the living, breathing, inspiring word of God to the extent I find meaning in its pages that speak to [...]

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Dear Closeted SisterFriend, You’ve been in my thoughts and prayers in recent days even more so than usual and there are a few things I want to say to you, just between us, SisterFriend to SisterFriend. I just want to assure you that you’re not under any obligation to come out of the closet until [...]

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I want to spend some time over the next few posts talking about the whole coming out experience, but before I jump into the middle of things I want to let you know where I am in all this since anything I have to offer is limited to what I’ve personally experienced in my own [...]

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Several weeks ago over at *! [ emphatic emphasis], Shush posted on Sighted Faith, an entry I so connected with that as I read each line I found my head involuntarily nodding in agreement like a plastic dachshund bobble head in the rear window of a 1980 Chrysler Cordoba. For me as well, faith is [...]

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There are approximately a gazillion blogs I stalk frequently visit. One of them is *! [emphatic asterisk]. Another is Suddenly Christian. So, the other day I had retreated to my secret undisclosed location, a.k.a. Starbucks, to write a blog entry; the second half on wrestling with God. I felt stuck in a writer’s block kind [...]

Posted in Christian Lesbian Identity, Personal Stories, SisterFriends 3 Comments »

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 [...]

Posted in Christian Lesbian Identity, Email Outtakes, Queering the Bible, Questioning 7 Comments »

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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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 [...]

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