• Revisiting “When Ministry Was the Closet”

    My story has been told before. I met Jeff Chu [i]at a microbrewery in Hartford a few years after everything blew up. I was working as a sous chef. Jeff and his husband, Tristan, are close with my sister Molly and my brother-in-law Jed; when Jeff mentioned his book on gay Christians, Molly said, “You

  • 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…