Gift of Life

April 18, 2012 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

She and I had just enough room to sit and talk. We were in the nook of the stairway of the coffee shop, the spot where the stairs go up mid-level and then switchback-like the trails I hiked back home in Oregon during the summer. A few days ago, she emailed me about some research […]

Being Gay at Point Loma Nazarene University

April 15, 2012 in Life Lessons, Openly Gay at a Christian College

The Road To Love Whether it is teaching that the Bible is a scrapbook or that water expresses emotions, professors and speakers at Point Loma make an effort to help us question things, inviting us to know things for ourselves, rather than regurgitate a worldview that isn’t necessarily our own. In the spring semester of […]

Illusions: Let's Be Real

April 1, 2012 in Openly Gay at a Christian College

The summer following my senior year of high school, my youth pastor invited me to be a counselor at a Bible camp located along a beach in Washington. My good friend (who had done it the year before) and I would be sharing a cabin of eight rowdy six to eight-year-old boys. This would be […]