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Here is perhaps the most salient lesson I learned in making the documentary The New Black. What goes unspoken–and unheard–in our national conversations is equally as important as what is said. When, in 2008, an erroneous CNN poll laid the blame for the passage of Proposition 8 squarely at the feet of California’s black voters,…
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In honor of National Coming Out Day, here are ten of our favorite blogs on Coming Out & Christianity! 🙂 Come Out, Queer Prophets! by Rev. Cody J. Sanders—Ph.D. Candidate, Brite Divinity School You Are Not Alone by Candice Czubernat—Licensed Mental Health Counselor, The Christian Closet Coming Out Of The Wilderness & Into The City by Rev.…
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An often told story in my family, even now, is about a time we took a trip to see my grandparents in Alabama. On the drive back to Atlanta, when we were still at least an hour away, I sat up and stated with a sense of importance, “I think I’ll have a glass of…
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Coming out just doesn’t hold the same intrigue for me anymore. The act is neither filled with the trepidation of earlier years or the sense of boldness it carried in the years after the trepidation subsided. Coming out sometimes serves as a tool for liberation—oftentimes quite successfully. Resisting the shackles of silence and the imposition…
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On a cool Saturday—October 6th, 2012—I took a walk, holding the hand of my best friend, my soul-mate, and the love of my life. I stood in front of my friends and family, and hers. There were passages read, and homilies were presented. Underneath a natural chuppah of leaf and limb, God’s presence became visible and felt in light and gentle Autumn breeze. …
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By now most of you will have seen the news of the grandfather who disowned his daughter because she disowned her own son when he came out as gay to her. This has wildly circled blogs and news sites being heralded as “Today in awesome parenting” and a “beautiful letter.” While I completely understand how this…
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Throughout my life, the majority of negative experiences concerning my sexuality have happened within Seventh-day Adventist Christian institutions, both religous and educational. In school, I learned to use books for shields and hobbies for distractions while words like faggot and abomination were thrown in my direction. In elementary schools, children teased me about my sexual orientation…
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As a progressive Christian, I am hesitant to admit how dearly I wanted my college buddy to know Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. Clearly it was a desire for intimacy on my part, but I also wanted him to know how dearly loved he was. If he could never be told of my…
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I was at a local diner (the kind where the waitress knows your name and your order before you open your mouth) seated across from a long time advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and queer (LGBTQ) inclusion in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Time and again throughout his career he had been one of…
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Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up to Reconciling Ministries Network’s letter to Dean Love at the Candler School of Theology. Candler is a United Methodist seminary in Atlanta, GA, that recently decided to honor a vocal advocate against LGBTQ inclusion with a Distinguished Alumni Award. Dean Love has addressed this controversial decision in a letter to the Candler community. When I…
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