On Feb 21, 2014 ⋅ No comments
So often I have encountered misconceptions about bisexuality—that bisexuals “become” straight or gay depending on the gender of our partner. In fact, I do not live an either/or life; I am simply bi, always and everywhere, wholly content to dwell in the complexity of the both/and experience. What does that look like? I recently wrote […]
On Nov 5, 2013 ⋅ 13 comments
While I identify as bisexual, my sexual orientation has been a point of confusion for me throughout my life. In my latest Believe Out Loud piece, I explore the fluidity of my personal experience of gender and how it contributes to whom I am capable of loving.
On May 10, 2013 ⋅ 50 comments
I was talking with my friend, John, recently about the wonderfully vigorous national conversation about marriage sparked last month by the Supreme Court hearings on Prop 8 and DOMA. John agreed with a politician who publicly expressed a fear that straight people might pretend to be gay so that they could get the special benefits of having a “gay marriage.” I shared with him how this made no sense to me.
On Dec 2, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments
I am very grateful for the spiritual discipline of daily Bible reading which gives me the opportunity to return to stories like the Tower of Babel and bring my adult sense to bear on its meaning. The lesson I draw from it now is different from my Sunday school days.
On Aug 19, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments
A few months ago, President Jimmy Carter took religion to task for contributing to discrimination against women around the world. From my perspective, President Carter’s comments definitely struck home. But it led me to also ask the question: What does religion, and specifically my faith, Christianity, really have to say about gender?
On Dec 10, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments
12/10 Recently my friend Thomas Waters cited Genesis 1:31 as a Biblical foundation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inclusion in the church: “God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.” For me, there is simply no exception to “everything,” both in these beautiful descriptions of God’s creations that we […]
On Aug 14, 2009 ⋅ One comment
8/14 When President Jimmy Carter announced recently that he was parting ways with the Southern Baptist Church, he argued not only with the Southern Baptist Convention’s unjust treatment of women, but just as importantly with their “quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses” to justify their actions. As President Carter wrote in his statement: The […]
