Liberation and the New Way

December 28, 2011 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

Each year since I was thirteen, I’ve made the same New Year’s resolution. I would look up into the night sky and watch the streams of light launch into the air and glimmer in their glory as they illuminated my face. Imagining the lights as glowing dandelions, I would dream and wish, “I’m going to […]

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Breakfast with the Author of The Shack

October 2, 2011 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

I grew up with the greatest privilege of knowing the Paul Young and his children. Paul is the author of New York’s Times Best Seller, The Shack, and possibly one of the most intelligent individuals I have personally known. Back on August 17th, I had breakfast with him, a time that is still continuing to […]

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Peter's Challenge: FAITH

September 20, 2011 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

In my previous post (Peter’s Challenge: 8 Weeks to Love), I talked about my “eight weeks to love” plan, and my first step was faith, the most tough and most foundational step. After about two weeks of deliberation, I finally grabbed a faint hold of my idea of faith. Since faith is the foundation for […]

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Peter's Challenge: 8 Weeks to Love

September 17, 2011 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

With the harsh spiritual season of winter this past spring, I spent my summer reconstructing my spiritual life back to a healthy spot. All I could really come up with was that I needed to “love.” Returning to Point Loma, although still on the edge, I made my focal point of this year to love […]

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Tetelestai: "It. Is. Finished."

July 27, 2011 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

I’ve been driving around the past month with 8 books sitting in my trunk, but I pick up one of these books once, maybe twice, a week. So as part of my goals for the next few weeks, I wanted to finish at least half of these books. I’m around 30minutes finishing the first one […]

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Theology: Five Interrogative Questions.

April 12, 2011 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

Remember back when learning English grammar, you learn the five interrogative question words: who, what, when, where, and why? With my countless number of questions about God and being a “vessel of ideas” (The Rain Fell…), I’ve managed to barely organize my questions into these interrogative questions. What is God?In the Christian tradition, God seems […]

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The Rain Fell, The Floods Came, and The Winds Blew...

April 5, 2011 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

Matthew 7:24-27 24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25“And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been […]

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What a Beautiful God..

January 21, 2011 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

Over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, a few friends and I made the trek over to Tempe, Arizona where a friend’s aunt lives. With a long weekend, it would be fun to just get out of San Diego and see something different. Some may think it’s crazy that we went from San Diego to Arizona […]

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Theology: New Bible Glasses!

December 25, 2010 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

One of my favorite and most life-changing things I learned this last semester in Old Testament and New Testament was the story of the Bible as a whole. The Bible contains the story of Israel (God’s People) and their relationship to God. In order to fully comprehend the Bible, these stories must be understood. Before […]

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Bible: Paul's Call to Remain

December 21, 2010 in Christianity, Openly Gay at a Christian College

Tonight, today, or should I say lately? I’ve been feeling this great desire to develop some good solid Christian friendships. Good, right? The thing is this desire has started to lead me away from friendships of the past (not bad friendships, definitely good ones, but not so godly). Well tonight, as I started thinking about […]

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