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 [...]

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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 about [...]

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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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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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…in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses (transcends) all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7
My personal story has gone through a series of revisions since the summer of 1995 when I [...]

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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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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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This is one of the first essays I prepared for christianlesbians.com back in 1997.
On my desk is a stack of papers, about a hundred and fifty sheets thick, containing the personal stories of more than 35 ‘ex-lesbians’ which I gathered from ‘ex-gay’ ministries such as Stonewall Revisited. The first time I read them was more [...]

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