BEN DUBOW

Running the Way

Category: Book: Faith Autopsy

  • Saved Twice: Pastor Nancy

    I am saved by Jesus—and I also experienced salvation through a white, middle-class, middle-aged, cisgender, heterosexual woman: Rev. Nancy Butler. When my world blew up, Nancy showed up. She hired me in the church office—just enough structure and a paycheck to get me off the couch and back among people. She leveraged her gift as →

  • Faith Autopsy—what this is (and isn’t)

    When I began to follow Jesus, I felt the tension between what I knew about myself—that I was gay—and what I was being taught about God and sexuality. Out of necessity and self-preservation, I bought the company line →

  • Forward

    I grew up in church. I can find the clobber passages faster than most Bible drills—Genesis, Leviticus, Romans, Corinthians, Jude. I also know the feeling in your stomach when those verses get lobbed like grenades across a room. You brace. You try not to cry. You wonder how long you can keep loving Jesus without… →