I am fairly settled in my faith and how it informs my actions in the world. Yet, like a lot of others, I struggle to respond to myself with the same compassion, kindness, and love. If you struggle with treating yourself and others with love
A beacon of hope and a rallying cry for justice Dr. Lucas F.W. Wilson’s anthology, Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy, is an urgent and necessary work that sheds light on the dark truths of so-called “conversion therapy” — the pseudoscientific name for a
Did God really change God’s mind? It is time for us to pay attention to what the conservative evangelicals are saying about scripture. It was self-proclaimed evangelicals that led the convicted felon, Donald Trump, to re-election. These evangelicals are funding, directing, and orchestrating the Trump
Written by Austen Hartke from personal experiences beginning at a very early age, Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians takes the reader on a deeply heartfelt path of discovery, first by examining the author’s struggle to determine who he is, then by
bell hooks died on December 15, 2021, at 69 in Kentucky. As a Black Appalachian, she was inarguably one of the nation’s prominent feminist scholars and authors and a friend to everyone she met. Last year, Time‘s “100 Women of the Year” called our sister-friend
C.S. Lewis’ thinking on sex, and sexual references in his biography, have puzzled readers and scholars alike. He hasn’t always seemed as “Christian” as some Christians would like. “Is C.S. Lewis too Sexy for America?” the Lewis scholar Brenton Dickieson recently discussed. The suggestions of
Read the rest of the series When you hear the word “church,” what first comes to mind? For many of us queer folk, harmful memories may reemerge — memories of people who “loved” us but wouldn’t accept us, and of places where we were “welcomed”
In Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence, Diana Butler Bass discusses six ways of approaching Jesus, six ways that Christians have spoken of Jesus, and most importantly, six ways Christians have experienced Jesus — or as she calls it, the
Read the rest of the series Stories are powerful, but not all stories withstand the test of time -and not all stories should. Think of the story of The Giving Tree by the great Shel Silverstein. At one point in time, it was perfectly okay
In today’s world we have an ever-growing selection of LGBTQ+ focused books; however, the pool is still lacking on the transgender front. I am a trans man and have scoured countless shelves to find proper representation. Luckily, I came across If I Was Your Girl