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QUEER: 2a : differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal b (1) : eccentric, unconventional (2) : mildly insane : touched (Merriam-Webster)
New Self
I don’t know if it is the weather, or a lucky combination of circumstances, but I have been propelled into a new lifestyle that is so different from where I was at in the beginning of the year. It started with a sudden change from being sloppy to organized. It took some work, but mostly […]
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Still Mennonite?
December 21, 2013
I wish I had documented my journey this past year. I started the blog as a testimony/account of a gay Christian, but about a year ago I started to lose my faith. Or maybe replace it, with logic, with reason. I moved from Christian Agnostic to plain old agnostic. I think I’ve moved right over […]
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What is morality without honesty?
January 14, 2013
One step in my journey from conservative Republican Christian to an openly gay member of the Christian Left, was the disregard many of my former associates have for truth. It is apparent in the hatred of science and reason, which have been friends of the church -although the church has not always returned the friendship. […]
Aftermath of Coming Out in a Mennonite world
November 27, 2012
Most people ignored the bright rainbow banner and the note. Of my old church, only the pastor said anything, adn he just said that he’d like to hear my story. My parents are pretending they haven’t seen or something- I haven’t broached the topic with them, although my sister did. My relatives back home haven’t […]
Posted in: Coming Out
I made a coming out cake.
September 30, 2012
Is that too tacky? Even if you think it is, it’s still delicious. My housemate and I had a lot of fun mixing the food coloring into the cake mix, and trying to figure out how to get it into jars. I decided to change my Facebook “interested in” on October 11, on National Coming […]
Posted in: Coming Out
A reminder of marriage inequality
September 28, 2012
I went on a genealogy trip a few days ago. My great-grandfather was born in Holmes County, and I wanted to see if I could find his birth record, and some other records proving what I had learned about him and his ancestors online. I was in the Probate Court, looking through an old, handwritten log of […]
Posted in: Political
Quick Update
September 23, 2012
You know those posts where people apologize for not posting. My sister will be rolling her eyes right about now. I haven’t had the energy, the story, and the internet all at the same time for quite a while. I’ve been working nearly every day, and trying to get to bed earlier, despite my night […]
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I don’t quite shun you…
August 24, 2012
My cousins told me that because of my views on homosexuality and evolution, she has to break fellowship with me. “I’m not shunning you,” she said, “I will still say hi, we just can’t have that friendship and camaraderie that we had.” I went to Mennonite camp with my parents, siblings, their spouses, some of my mom’s […]
LGBTs and Christians: bridging the chasm
June 29, 2012
A friend of mine posted a link to this blogpost by a straight Christian ally. He writes to affirming Christians, non-affirming Christians, and to us. To my LGBT friends: If you used to be a Christian and aren’t now because of the way you’ve been treated in the church or your Christian home, I understand […]
Sorry about your struggles with sodomy…
June 23, 2012
I finally got a response to my coming out letter. My uncle wrote me: “I’m sorry to hear about your big struggle with sodomy.” He continued with some definitions of sodomy (including bestiality too) and a short history of sodomy laws (and was so woeful that these are no longer enforced). He was apalled that […]
Posted in: Coming Out, Theology
A Queer P@th 
May 25, 2014
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