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July 2014

July 29, 2014

Bible Character Bingo!

So one of those inane "which type of underwear are you?" quizzes floated across my...

July 22, 2014

10 Ways MY religious freedom is under attack

My religious freedom to love my neighbor is under attack by your religious freedom to...

July 22, 2014

“Christian right” – are you ready to put your money where your faith is?

On July 21, President Obama signed an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against...

July 14, 2014

Expelled for getting married?

Christian Minard says she received a letter from Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, Okla., notifying...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

A few words for my critics

Wow y'all, I am just stunned by the great fortune of having my last post...

June 24, 2014

5 things you REALLY mean when you say “I don’t approve of your homosexual lifestyle”

The phrase "homosexual lifestyle" gets thrown around a lot by conservatives when jockeying for political...

June 14, 2014

Fundies just love the gays to death

Matthew Paul Turner wrote this kick-ass post rounding up all the shards from the evanglisphere...

June 11, 2014

Ducked-Up Bibles and Blood Money

This post really just wrote itself, y'all. All I had to do was just sit...

June 02, 2014

Gay marriage causes harm…how?

I heard today that Florida is up to her tricks again and just can't quite...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

That Holy Spirit, She so Cray-Cray

Once upon a time in Las Vegas I learned the hard way that roller coasters...

May 26, 2014

Forge meaning and build identity

The season of LGBT Pride is just around the corner and today I watched a...

May 22, 2014

Big Gay Common Core?

According to a post over at ThinkProgress... Common Core may not be a well-intentioned set of...

May 15, 2014

Refusing to discriminate against the gays is NOT discrimination!

Sooooo, last night I read a funny little diddy where some "Christians" in Mississippi are all in...

May 11, 2014

Big Gay Christian Tingle

So the other evening I posted a somewhat cryptic status update on Facebook that simply...

May 11, 2014

God and the Gay [Evangelical] Christian

Deborah Arca, who I lovingly (and maybe and maybe a bit delusionally) call my editor...

May 07, 2014

Ramblings of a Pub Theologian: Beer & Hymns in Atlanta

A friend of mine, Karen Stephenson Slappey, reached out to me the other day to ask...

May 02, 2014

Searching for a balance

My lived experiences, combined with a wide open soul, create in me conflicting responses to...

May 01, 2014

When a fundie asks you about your stance on the issue of homosexuality..

First remind them that people are not issues, they are children of God. Then go...

April 2014

April 28, 2014

United Church of Christ files lawsuit challenging North Carolina marriage laws

One of the most important reasons I am struggling with shedding the label Christian is...

April 26, 2014

May the road rise to meet you

May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. ...

April 11, 2014

Leaving church to search for Christ

Sometime near the end of what I now call World Vision Week I had a...

April 03, 2014

Mediating Faith Online: A Chat with Clint Schnekloth

By now y'all probably realize I've taken a pretty deep hit with all the "Christian"...

April 01, 2014

World Vision’s courage changed my mind: becoming ex-lesbian

Friends and family, in the wake of the courageous World Vision stand to continue to...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

Dreaming dreams and seeing visions: Nadia, Rachel, Tony et al.

I had an odd dream last night. Maybe this dream is the result of the...

March 24, 2014

Thank you Fred Phelps

A couple of y'all have asked me why I have been strangely quiet about Fred...

March 14, 2014

Grieving the death of a gay marriage

Warning: this post feels like a hot damn mess of a dozen mismatched thoughts dumped...

March 12, 2014

Happy Birthday Phyllis

I am sitting on my tiny front porch listening to the lonely wail of a...

March 05, 2014

Lent: Come Aside a While

Friends, I'd like to take this opportunity to invite y'all, liberal or conservative, queer or...

March 03, 2014

Shame and Wonder In The Choir Loft

So today I have the pleasure of lifting up a post by a friend of...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Ginger lesbian willing to explore bondage

Sorry I'm not sorry that I lured you here under false pretenses but this is...