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Intersex at Bible college
In telling a student’s story, Cynthia Vacca Davis captures the complicated nature of coming of age as an intersex person.
The gates of evangelicalism
Isaac Sharp traces the story of the groups that find themselves outside, pushed there by the conservative White men standing guard.
A queer boy in North Dakota
Taylor Brorby’s coming-of-age memoir is a work of defiance. But it is not a tragedy.
Jonathan Dyck’s queer Mennonite graphic novel
Shelterbelts is a quiet ode to rural life that honors what is good and confronts what is not.
Finding church after religious trauma
Brooke Petersen gathers the stories of eight queer Christians who left churches—and found new ones.
John Boswell’s faith lit up a generation
My brother’s work paved the way for many LGBTQ Christians.
Bryan Massingale wins social justice award from Paulist Center
Texas judge rules religious businesses exempt from LGBTQ bias claims
by Kathryn Post
The Naming Project is a Christian camp that celebrates LGBTQ teens as they are
“We ask questions like, who am I? Who did God make me to be?”
Clint Schnekloth interviews Ross Murray
State anti-trans bills aren’t just culture wars skirmishes
They’re acts of harm against living, breathing people.
The real Eugene Peterson
Many of my LGBTQ friends and clergy sisters have disavowed Peterson’s writings. Not I.
LGBTQ singer-songwriter ‘GameStops’ iTunes Christian music charts