Why Stay Christian: A Pride Month Pondering
For various reasons, it may come as a shock to you that a church would choose to spend a whole six-week series exploring the question Why Stay Christi...
It’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month
It’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month, so it’s time for Christians to turn off social media, ignore the news stories, and further entrench themselves in the beliefs...
INHERIT YOUR CALLING TO JUSTICE
I held my fortieth birthday party at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Yes, the same Stonewall Inn where in 1969 a three-day riot—led by transgender...
Fault Lines in the Faith
A small gap, poised to shift, turns deadly. A fault line holds the potential of an earthquake— a catastrophe waiting to happen. Life near a geological...
“TELL THE REST” an excerpt
Excerpt from Tell the Rest, by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
In this excerpt from a much longer scene, Delia returns to the church and office of the pastor who...
Deconstruction, Fear, and the Sermon on the Mount
When I was thirteen, I had a green faux leather Living Bible with illustrations of a very 70s Jesus. For whatever reason, I flipped to the beginning o...
It’s been a week since the Club Q shooting. Let’s not move on.
Note: This piece originally appeared in Religion News Service.
The LGBTQ community continues to bear a disproportionate amount of hateful gun violenc...
Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric Is On The Rise: How Should We Respond?
In a strange way, I am glad Pastor Awes preached what he did so clearly, because he is revealing the truth that most other evangelicals don’t want to acknowledge- their theology related to the LGBTQ+ community is a theology of death.
Masquerading as Compassion: The Church‘s Latest Move to Deal With the LGBTQ+ Issue
When Christians talk of rules, lines, and statutes, they’re focused on arbitrary commands instead of the law of love, which Jesus brought forth.
Finding Jesus in Rural America
We have to know God is here. Right here.