LGBTQ
The unsettling surprise of God’s mercy
Father-son duo Richard and Christopher Hays set aside their old positions in favor of a more expansive view of biblically faithful queer inclusion.
A church politics of nondomination
Liberal Anglicans and Methodists often face a tension between LGBTQ inclusion and anti-colonialism. But we don’t have to choose.
Missed opportunities at the UMC general conference
We took some good steps. But we are too afraid to name certain truths.
An ambitious queer reading of John of the Cross
Miguel Díaz takes the medieval mystic’s sexual metaphors for spirituality seriously—along with the lived experience of LGBTQ people.
Intersex at Bible college
In telling a student’s story, Cynthia Vacca Davis captures the complicated nature of coming of age as an intersex person.
The gates of evangelicalism
Isaac Sharp traces the story of the groups that find themselves outside, pushed there by the conservative White men standing guard.
A queer boy in North Dakota
Taylor Brorby’s coming-of-age memoir is a work of defiance. But it is not a tragedy.
Jonathan Dyck’s queer Mennonite graphic novel
Shelterbelts is a quiet ode to rural life that honors what is good and confronts what is not.
Finding church after religious trauma
Brooke Petersen gathers the stories of eight queer Christians who left churches—and found new ones.
John Boswell’s faith lit up a generation
My brother’s work paved the way for many LGBTQ Christians.
