“Woman 4” acrylic by Jo Anne Carlson.
By Kara Ammon The Methodist Book of Discipline propelled me from my 46-year closet like nothing else could. I grew up in a Presbyterian church where my Dad was the minister, my Mom was a Sunday school teacher, and I was a wiseass. Pastors’ kids are known for that –...
By Sharon Gonsalves Spirituality and religion have been very fluid in my life. So has my sexuality. The two have intersected at several points. I was raised Jewish by parents who were not of the same faith. Dad was raised Catholic and as an adult called himself a...
We are focusing this time on Spirituality/Religion. Readers were given the following prompt: “Tell us: How has your religious upbringing and or current spiritual understanding/practice affected your experience/expression of your sexual orientation? If you practice...