From the category archives:

Family

Single People in Church = Gay People in Church

March 6, 2010 · 23 comments

This article was recently published from one of my very favorite publications, RELEVANT Magazine. The title is, “Being Single with Intentionality.” It caught my eye because so often singles in church culture feel as weird and put out as gays and lesbians do.
I was speaking recently at Willow Creek and I brought up the aforementioned [...]

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Gay Parents

November 9, 2009 · 5 comments

USA Today recently ran a short piece scientifically comparing gay parents to straight parents. Here is the article. A few highlights I found interesting:
1. It’s shameful that USA Today had to use a picture of a stereotypical gay couple from a TV show instead of a real family. In my opinion, it really shows USA [...]

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Very Happy and yet Very Sad

October 17, 2009 · 6 comments

I will be resuming the previous discussion about Activism tomorrow, as I apologize for the brief departure over the last few days.

It has been a very rough week for me personally as life and death, excitement and pain, have all closely hovered around my daily existence. Two family members had unexpected surgery this past week, [...]

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Part 2: I’m Straight, My Parents are Gay

October 10, 2009 · 4 comments

Here is Part 1 of Mike’s story. Part 2 continues here:
“I didn’t know it at the time, but I soon learned there was a tension there. On the way to my high school youth group every week, my dad and I listened to James Dobson and other conservative evangelicals on the radio as they discussed [...]

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Part 1: I’m Straight, My Parents are Gay

October 9, 2009 · 3 comments

The posts throughout the weekend are the life story of Mike Filicicchia. I first met Mike through his comments on my blog, and his story is something that needs to be heard. Mike is straight. His parents are not.
Here is Mike’s blog, and from my experiences with him he has shown me that he is one [...]

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A Gay Father’s Words to Conservativism

September 16, 2009 · 64 comments

The following is written by Jon, a gay man married to his partner, who also has adopted kids. Jon frequently comments on this blog, and I truly appreciate his thoughtful insight to whatever discussion is ongoing. In some recent ongoing discussions on the blog the question of, would a gay family attend a conservative church, [...]

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