Category: homosexuality
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Your child is safer at a Pride event than at a church
The data shows that churches and pastors are a bigger risk to children than drag queens and Pride events. So why all the rhetoric around why queer people being threats to children? One answer: queerphobia.
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Untamed — Glennon Doyle Inspiring My Gay Heart
Glennon Doyle writes powerfully about the “untaming” of women, and as a gay man, I find powerful resonance.
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God in the Devil
In a show about the Devil and a Grindr meet up, I encountered God’s faithfulness and beautiful love. God is in it all, including the things we deem “evil.”
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Prayer House
As I came to terms with my sexuality, there was one place that would hold some of the most powerful memories — some good, some bad, but all of them were important. That place was the local prayer house.
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LGBTQ+ Oppression: Oh Let Me Count the Ways
After legislation that gives us marriage rights and protection against work-place discrimination, how is the LGBTQ+ community oppressed in the United States?
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A Letter to My Younger Self
At the age of 30, I write a letter to my younger self with advice on how to navigate being gay and Christian.
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Reneging on My Six… Maybe
A while back, I wrote I was a counter-phobic, sexual six. If you’re not an enneagram nerd like myself, no, I’m not having sex with six people. In short, a sexual six is scared and presents courageous to prove to themself and others they’re able to beat anything. I promise I’m getting to sappy, personal…
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Purpose and the Politician
A recent trip to Texas and a Netflix original show trigger thoughts of purpose and destiny.
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Ugly Crying: A Story of Dogs with Chicken Bones in Their Throats
You know when you hold back tears and hold back tears and hold back tears, and then you begin to forget the last time you cried because you’ve kept it in for so long in the name of nobility or fear or reputation; but then that dumb puppy post pushes you over the edge, and…
