Scarlet Letters: Removing the Curse of Shame
Two CenterPeace events and another thousand miles on my car later, and I’m finally back to finishing our review of Wesley Hill’s Washed and Waiting! I hope you’ve enjoyed learning…
Tag: same-sex attraction
The Sound of Belonging
Last week I heard one of the sweetest sounds I’ve heard in a long time. During their daily chapel assembly at a small Christian university in Tennessee, I shared my…
Starting Conversations. And Stopping Them.
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…
Hearing Voices
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…
Quick to Listen
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…
What Will You Tell Them?
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 Things We Learn at Eight
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…
‘Just the Way You Are’
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…
The Missing Peace 