This personal story was submitted by Andrea and is the winning entry among the twenty submissions received in the First Annual SisterFriends Writing Contest. It’s an honor to share Andrea’s story with you along with the other stories that will be posted in the coming weeks. In thinking about writing this story my mind has [...]

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The personal story below has been contributed by an anonymous guest blogger. Even in maintaining anonymity due to her love and concern for family, the sharing of her story, as the story itself, demonstrates great courage and integrity. I loved reading this story and I trust that you will too. Thanks to our guest blogger [...]

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This story was recently submitted by one of our readers, Eliz Anderson, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to share it with you. If you would like to contribute your story as a GLBTQ Christian or friend to GLBTQ folks, please send it in the body of an email to anita@sisterfriends-together.org. You can do so [...]

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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 [...]

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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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I knew I was a lesbian before I got married but I was convinced that if I was “obedient” and married a man, God would take away my desire for women. I met a very nice guy and became engaged. I attempted to tell him about my previous relationships with women, but he didn’t really [...]

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Though my story is brief I wanted to share it because it is the opposite of so many of the others included here. When I was a child my Mom shipped me to every Vacation Bible School in the world, not for the sake of my soul but I suspect the sake of her sanity. [...]

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As we are all still living, our stories are ongoing. I would like to tell you how I came to accept that God does not ‘damn’ us for being gay. As a child I was brought up going to church every Sunday. I went to a Christian Day school for first through sixth grades as [...]

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I have always been a Christian, and I was United Methodist for the first 38 years of my life. I was never very interested in guys, and I knew there was something different about me from other girls. I was always teased in high school and college about being gay because I didn’t date, and [...]

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I am a 37 year old lesbian living in a small town in country New South Wales, Australia. Looking back I knew I was a lesbian by the age of 15. I was growing up in Sydney with my loving parents and three brothers. We had a Catholic upbringing and at least a few times [...]

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