I'm a writer, which means I transform thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations into letters on a page. The process of molding those things into words and sentences is a sanctuary action for me, and in these dark days we really need to seek out strategies which help us cope. Here are a few ways things writing does: It forces me to encounter what I'm thinking or feeling, and provides shape to what it is. It gives me a sense of control within a wild and untamed universe. I ha

Declan and I received lovely roses at our city's Transgender Day of Remembrance event. You can still see the glorious pinks and greens of the petals. They initially looked like basic off-white flowers, and it took a few days for them to open up and display their extraordinary hues. The event was held November 20, and I took this picture today, nearly forty days later. It's astonishing that they've held on so long. Yes, the petals are beginning to turn brown on the edges, bu

The passage below is excerpted from Holding on to Hope: Help for friends and family of transgender people. Emotions run high at holidays, and special days on the calendar add emotional complexity to the transgender experience, particularly in the first year of coming out. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are hard for trans parents as both they and the children work out how to view their roles and titles. Birthdays can trigger sorrow in trans people for the years they were forced

Many Where True Love Is followers want nothing to do with church, and I get it. Declan does an astounding job curating content to uplift and energize people in this dystopian era where ugliness and exclusion are proclaimed as truth, and those messages touch a wide range of people. He and I have received a generous walloping of pain from churches, both in person and online, so we understand the distrust, and the content of the WTLI movement has broadened over the years in res

Each era of life brings unique challenges, opportunities, and gifts. One of the gifts in this particular time and place is being a homilist at Spiritus Christi Church, a revolutionary faith community which does profound works of social justice, and feels like family. Here's my latest, from Monday 12/1/2025, which contemplates the difficulty of translation, the issue of biblical inerrancy, and the possibility of a gay Roman Centurion's plea for help.

Declan and I talked about the new golden statue of the current president this morning, and it's contrast with the teachings of the gospels and Wisdom of Laotse which we've been contemplating. The urging of both writings is to seek humility, and the special importance of that virtue for those in positions of leadership. The conversation reminded me of a passage from Sleeper, Awake: 40 days of companionship for the deconstruction process , which I've excerpted below. While not

I'm trying not to get sucked in to the past week's vortex about a person who died and the person accused of killing them. There are too...

The entry below is excerpted from Transfigured: A 40-day journey through scripture for gender-queer and transgender people. Thought I'd...

This post originally appeared on www.sdewitthall.com . A member of my writing group raised a question at the last meeting and I've been...

Did you realize Zan also writes poetry? Here's a sample from her chapbook titled A Dog Named Me . On Orgasm My beloved asked for a poem...