I don’t know Pastor Charles Worley from the Providence Road Baptist Church in North Carolina. And I probably wouldn’t have the opportunity to even know who he is, except that…
I’ve ‘listened’ to a lot of the conversations on Facebook, the blogs, the editorials written in response to the North Carolina election last week. And President Obama’s endorsement of marriage…
March 26, 2003. A day I won’t ever forget. The day my deepest darkest secrets came to light in a very public way. The day I shared that my family…
One of my favorite storytellers was a friend of my parents named Jake. From the outside Jake was a scrawny little guy, not very tall, but wiry with a wrinkled…
I’m a talker. They say I said my first words at nine months, saying “Hi!” to strangers in the grocery store. I gave my first speech at the age of…
The following post is reprinted with Richard Beck’s permission from his blog, Experimental Theology. If you haven’t visited his blog, you’ve missed something. Richard writes about things that matter. And just…
It was 1971 and I was ten years old the first time I ever heard a derogatory term used for someone who was homosexual. I didn’t even know what the…
The first time I ever heard anybody say anything about homosexuality I was probably seven or eight years old. It was the most beautiful wedding I’d ever seen. Granted, at…
Fifteen years ago this month I was halfway through law school. I had just started clerking at a firm part-time and was busy competing for Tech’s mock trial and moot…
My favorite Christmas present didn’t have to be unwrapped. It wasn’t left under the tree and I’m pretty sure the giver didn’t even realize what a gift it was. But…
