Easter Writing Project 2012

I was on the mission trip when I had a conversation with a man named…well lets say Bert.  Bert ended […]

In the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), as in many other denominations I am sure, church camp is a formative

As a straight woman, I get mistaken for gay a lot.  When I was in the museum field, I was a

I went to seminary but I am not really sure why. I would like to offer that I felt a

My divinity school days were filled with the motto “Live the questions”.   Daily, as I worked my way through classes

I grew up in one of our denominations earliest Open & Affirming congregations, Southside Christian Church in South Bend, Indiana.

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” For a couple of

I was eleven years old the first time I had a conversation about homosexuality. It was at the family dinner

I grew up in a small, rural Presbyterian church.  The sort of place that reinforces all the stereotypes of small,

The Ohio Region of the DOC requires all clergy to attend an Antiracism/Pro Reconciliation training event in order to keep

After graduating from Brite Divinity School and becoming an ordained minister in 2008, I was excited about entering the search

One of the most formative classes in my educational career was “Post-Holocaust Theology,” taught by Clark Williamson at Christian Theological