Category Archives: Miscellaneous

For Love Covers a Multitude of Sins

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Rina

Over the past few weeks, I have come to learn a difficult truth about the woman I love. Rather than speak for her, I will share some of her words (edited for berevity’s sake), taken from something she wrote today: … Continue reading →

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“Gay Christian” is not an oxymoron

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Rina

I wrote parts of this five years ago, when I was struggling with my own opinions on this subject. As an ultra conservative, fundamentalist Christians, Jon and I once cut family members out of our lives for the “sin” of … Continue reading →

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Is It True?

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Rina

Lately, any time I find myself seeking to hide something I’ve said or done or feel for fear that someone will find it out, I ask myself a simple question: Is it true? The question reminds me that my fear … Continue reading →

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Arrival

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Rina

For the past three years, I’ve struggled to put the experience of my “faith crisis” into words. I wrote a little about it HERE and HERE, and HERE, but haven’t quite been able to explain how months of struggle culminated in an … Continue reading →

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No, I was not “born this way”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Rina

(I meant to post this during pride month, but true to form I’m running a bit late)… “What if I wasn’t born this way at all? What if I married Abby not just because I’m gay but because I’m SMART? … Continue reading →

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Be Free

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Rina

“True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in … Continue reading →

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What if pain is a place brave people visit?

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Rina

“Do not say that you do not want to know anything about pain or about suffering, that you only want to know about happiness—that would be an impossible thing. We know well that suffering helps us to understand, that it … Continue reading →

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