Today’s post is part of a larger initiative of more than 50 bloggers, all sharing their thoughts on how to “bride the gap” between people on the topic of faith and sexuality.  You can find the links of other bloggers participating in this undertaking at Bridging the Gap, an outreach of New Directions Ministries of [...]

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What can I say? The weather has been beautiful and so I’ve been outside. Walking, bike riding, strolling through the fresh produce at the farmer’s market, sitting in the shade in front of the coffee shop reading and generally playing like a kid on summer vacation. This little pastoral photo is of my beloved from [...]

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Now that I have your attention…
A rabbi gathered his students around him one day and asks, “How do you know when the night is almost past and day is about to break?”
“Rabbi, is it when you see a tree in the far distance and you can tell that it’s a tree?” ventured a young student.
“No,” [...]

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As GLBTQ Christians we know what it is to be at the receiving end of rejection, hate, and prejudice. We’ve be vilified and stereotyped. We’ve been the brunt of jokes. We’ve had to repeatedly defend the quality of our love, the validity of our relationships and the integrity of our character. Our commitment to Christ [...]

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Every time a straight Christian blogger publishes a compassionate or affirming post on homosexuality their comment section goes whack with activity. Just ask Lindsey at [*!] Emphatic Asterisk, John at Suddenly Christian, Christian at Sharp Iron, or Adam at Pomomusings.
A recent example can be found over at Pomomusings where Adam Cleveland Walker posted this week [...]

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For several months I’ve been following a blog by John Shore called Suddenly Christian. John won me over to his blog with his incredibly quirky sense of humor but in short order it was his heart for God that had me jonesin’ for his newest entries.
Yesterday I was working away on an upcoming entry that [...]

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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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This seems a reasonable question for any gay or lesbian Christian to ask, particularly when so many within the Christian church have said and done all they can to let GLBTQ people know just how unwelcome and unwanted they are, unless of course, they consent to denying or repenting of their sexual orientation…
…and certainly I’m [...]

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This was my ordination sermon, based on John 17:20-26, and preached on May 23, 2004.
“I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in [...]

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