The passage below is excerpted from the Scandalous... or Not? section of Sex With God: Meditations on the sacred nature of sex in a post-purity-culture world. Fantasies and Role Playing Today we tackle a subject which goes hand-in-hand with yesterday’s topic of masturbation. It’s a logical pairing given that imagining sex so often accompanies acts of self-pleasuring. When counseling the people of Corinth, Paul writes about the benefits of singleness, and states that it’s not

The passage below is excerpted from the Thing's They'll Experience section of Reaching for Hope: Strategies and support for the partners of transgender people. Bathrooms Are a Big Deal Bathrooms often aren’t safe. Transmasculine people are at risk of being beaten up or raped. Transfeminine people are at risk of being accused of nefarious intentions and being assaulted by the “defenders” of other females once they exit the facilities. Safety isn’t the only challenge. As transg

I began writing this poem after reading several threads in a Christian discussion group on Facebook which centered around various views of how Jesus "saves" us. The arguing grew rancorous, with debaters demanding "once saved always saved" versus "if you sin you were never actually saved", contrasted by a few quiet voices claiming the salvation Jesus procured was universal. The Bible was thumped to the tune of all-caps fist banging, and it all felt futile and absurd. ​ The wor