Huffington Post: About 12 years ago, I experienced an awakening — I realized that the confusing feelings I had had all my adult life came from being bisexual. Through the process of coming out as bi to myself, my loved ones — husband, teenage sons, brothers, father — and friends and colleagues in the church, a number of questions have risen to the surface as those most frequently asked. I thought it would be helpful to others to share those questions and my answers here. Continue Reading

Believe Out Loud: Christmas is a time for treasured traditions, looking back on the good news and the challenges of the past year, and forward with hope toward the year to come. Continue Reading

Huffington Post: That justice is of the very essence of God is the clear, consistent message of Scripture. And yet it seems that when the church has acted as the Body of Christ in the world — the arms and legs of God — it has often been muddy and ambivalent about what justice is and how we go about it. Continue Reading

Huffington Post: In my 30 years as an advocate for God’s love for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, I’ve had countless conversations with those who think differently from me about God, Scripture and the place of LGBT faithful in the church. Today, I share with you the five questions I most commonly hear, as well as my answers to them. Continue Reading

Washington Post On Faith: God in the Bible takes a deep, abiding interest in economics: the distribution of wealth and power among God’s people. Continue Reading

Washington Post On Faith: When does a human stop being a human? That’s the heaviest question that came to me as I reflected on Texas Governor Rick Perry’s contradictory convictions. Continue Reading

Huffington Post: This past weekend, Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio celebrated twenty years of being a More Light Church — a congregation where “everyone is invited into full membership and ministry regardless of sexual orientation.” Mt. Auburn boldly proclaims that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are part of God’s good creation. Continue Reading

Washington Post On Faith: I’ve studied prayer for many years and as I see it, there are at least two kinds of praying. One that we may as well call magical thinking and one that can give us what we need most in a dangerous moment. Continue Reading

Washington Post On Faith: I’ve studied prayer for many years and as I see it, there are at least two kinds of praying. One that we may as well call magical thinking and one that can give us what we need most in a dangerous moment. Continue Reading

Huffington Post: One of the most deeply held aspirations of the American people is to be the shining city upon the hill, an example of the best that human beings can be in the world. And for many this aspiration stems from an understanding of Scripture and more specifically Jesus’ words — what many of us learned as children in Sunday school. Continue Reading