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Christian Parents Who Tried to Love Their Gay Son the way the Church Taught them to 2 Jul 2013 | 06:10 am
Over on Huffington Post, Gay Voices, is a tragic story of Christian parents who tried very hard to love their gay son. They prayed, though, that they would not have a gay son….and that prayer came tr...
Sunday in the Court of Religion: After the death of DOMA and Prop 8 30 Jun 2013 | 11:48 am
The Supreme Court of the United States issued two huge rulings on gay rights Wednesday morning, June 26. They overturned a key component of DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act), Section #3 which tried ...
Marketing Masculine Stereotypes for Father’s Day 6 Jun 2013 | 12:04 pm
I opened my Indigo/Chapters bookstore Father’s Day mailer today. It’s nice to have something from a bookstore in the mail. One look at their selections for Fathers, though, and I sighed. The male st...
Can you be gay and Christian? Oh, yeah. 30 Apr 2013 | 11:01 am
Yes, thankfully. Amen. “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,” says Paul in Romans 8. We always get stuck on Romans 1, as if that’s the point of Romans–to condemn...
Why it’s important for a Catholic High School to have a Gay Straight Alliance 8 Mar 2013 | 11:01 am
The current mess at Vanier Catholic Secondary School is all of their own making. If students just stay quiet, I’m sure this will all pass and things will go back to normal. There will be a ruling that...
The Gospel of Intolerance–from the New York Times 24 Jan 2013 | 09:35 am
If churches who have embraced Uganda as a long lost mission, a possible utopia for God’s will to be done, a better version of the Christian American Dream, could watch this short documentary on the da...
Walk Out of Non-Affirming Churches 8 Dec 2012 | 02:07 pm
I used to think that if you found yourself attending a non-affirming church, and you were gay and by yourself, that dialogue with a non-affirming church was the answer–but I know differently now. Saf...
CBC’s DNTO to air my story on Coming Out to My Church for “Lost Causes,” Nov 3 29 Oct 2012 | 08:31 am
Definitely Not the Opera, (DNTO) a CBC Radio One program devoted to the art of storytelling in Canada, asked me to tell my story of coming out to my church for their Nov 3 show “Lost Causes”. I had pi...
If You Come Here from GEEZ #27 where I have two memoir pieces… 13 Aug 2012 | 10:17 am
Geez Magazine, editor Melanie Dennis Unrau, selected two of my short pieces to go in Geez’s fall issue. One of them, Undercover at the Festival of Faith and Writing, you can read as a web-exclusive. ...
“How do I save my daughter from a lesbian friend?” 5 Jul 2012 | 09:50 am
These words appeared today as search terms used to find information—but found my blog. The story they tell breaks my heart. I don’t know who put the words in, whether father or mother. I do know th...
