Finding the Hope

I don’t know about you, but I find myself leaning in to the promise of Advent in a more acute way...

Former MLP Blogger Got Inspiration For Book From LGBTQ Advocacy

MLP supporter and former MLP blogging team member Madeleine Mysko has a new book out from Bridle Path Press. Stone Harbor...

Marriage: My Story

Here we go: I am one of those women who has been planning her wedding since before she started dating. My...

A View of Marriage: An Overture Advocate’s Words

I’m Will McGarvey, Teaching Elder from San Francisco Presbytery, serving a Presbyterian-UCC union congregation. The Word is fundamental to our faith,...

Why Trans* Rights Should Matter to the Church

My coming to faith and my coming to consciousness about gender identity have strangely run in tandem. I came out as...

Bisexuality 201

“There are more things in heaven and on earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” ...

A Lesson Learned

Ten years ago I volunteered for a marriage equality non-profit in Connecticut called Love Makes a Family (LMF). I was a...

SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT

In Southeast Asia, if you’ve been examining a vendor’s wares, then turn away, most sellers will quickly pull out another item...

On the Sixth Circuit Court Decision: A Pastoral Response

I am privilege. Perhaps more exactly phrased, I am privileged. I’m male. I’m White. I’m Christian. I live in Ohio. Born...

Building Gracious Space in the PCUSA: Weeping

God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are...