I was reminded of a favorite quotation by Frederick Buechner this weekend related to calling, the quote being “The place God calls you to is the place where your deepest gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” I adore that quote and in a future post I’ll come back to it but not today. Instead, [...]

Posted in Affirming Voices From Inside the Church, Human Sexuality, Sexual Ethics 11 Comments »

If there was a pill that could make me straight
…..Straight in body
…..Straight in mind
…..Straight in heart
……….I would not take it.

If taking such a pill would restore all my lost friendships
…..And regain my parents pride
…..And give back my families respect
…..…..I would not take it.
If taking such a pill would return me to my former ministry
…..And the [...]

Posted in Christian Lesbian Identity, Human Sexuality, So Gay 51 Comments »

This poem is from a collection of modern adaptions of the writings of Hafiz entitled “I Heard God Laughing” by Daniel Ladinsky.
How Does It Feel to Be a Heart?
.
Once a young woman asked me,
“How does it feel to be a man?”
And I replied,
“My dear,
I am not sure.”
Then she said,
“Well, aren’t you a man?”
And this time [...]

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Can you imagine how many hits that title’s going to generate on the search engines? At this very moment a heterosexual man in Cleveland, Ohio is eagerly waiting for his slow as molasses dial-up modem to open up this page so he can. . . oh hi, Mr. Cleveland Guy. Here’s the free download of [...]

Posted in Christian Living and Faith, Human Sexuality, Sexual Ethics 12 Comments »

In recent days many of us have heard reports from a study conducted by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden that used MRI and PET scans to compare the brains of 90 people (25 straight men, 25 straight women, 20 gay men, 20 gay women), and found that the brains of gay men were more [...]

Posted in Human Sexuality, The Bible and Homosexuality 21 Comments »

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. [...]

Posted in Gifted by Otherness, Human Sexuality 6 Comments »

D and I met in 1999. In the summer of 2001 we registered as legal domestic partners in the State of California. Six years ago today D and I were married. In the photographic images above D is the radiant dark-haired beauty. I’m the dewy-eyed, bottle-enhanced blond with the goofy grin stuck on her face. [...]

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On any ordinary day I find myself thinking gay. At home. In the car. At the gym or grocery store or the DMV. Okay. At the DMV I’m not thinking gay. I’m thinking how they could possibly go any slower in getting us through those miserable insufferable lines. But even there, something might trigger the [...]

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