Category Archives: glbt issues

Going to Heaven

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Lainie’s recent writings on the ongoing debates in the Episcopal Church reminded me of an excellent book I read a few years ago–a biography of Bishop Gene Robinson.  My review… Going to Heaven: The Life and Election of Bishop Gene Robinson Elizabeth Adams Soft Skull Press, 2006 On November 2, 2003, Gene Robinson garnered national media attention as he became the first openly gay bishop ordained in the Episcopal Church.  Elizabeth Adams offers readers a look inside the man who—though far from ordinary—would be an… Continue reading →

The Episcopal Church

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I struggled with how to title this post and what exactly I wanted to focus on, but decided just to start by talking about my church, the Episcopal Church, before getting on to the issue at hand.  I grew up in a variety of conservative fundamentalist evangelical churches.  If that’s not enough labels for ya, some of them were also Pentecostal.  It was a decent amount of variety within a basically fundamentalist Biblical literalism framework.  I’ll save my struggles and questions for another post, but… Continue reading →