A Quirky Queer Quaker performance artist and scholar
Playfully exploring the serious worlds of gender, religion, and Climate Change
From the Blog
Walt Whitman, Time Travel, and Climate Change
I have been reflecting on queer responses to climate change including exploring the past to learn from our ancestors like Whitman in the 19th Century...
Doin Time in Iceland
I have been in Iceland for over a week. My travel companion and husband, Glen Retief, is a master researcher. While I procrastinated watching stupid...
Overcoming Conversion Therapy with Bible Stories???
Ah the Bible. Some will say it was the source of all my woes. I mean as a gay guy in America, folks used the Bible as the...
2017 Summer Reading List
Ah, summer reading. The longer days with opportunities to read outdoors means I ramp up my reading habits every summer. Since the presidential election, I...
Retreating Forward — Newest Trans Spirituality Resource
David E. Weekley (photo above,) an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, came out as a trans man almost 10 years ago. He had...
The Day the Gay Athletes Invaded NYC
It was 1994. I was deeply homophobic, particularly towards myself. I was trying to go straight for Jesus and everyone else–not an easy thing in NYC...
Learning in the Backseat
Do you drive? If so, I imagine you remember your first driving lesson. Where I grew up in rural New York, one could get a...
Falling for Jesus and Mother Earth During the END TIMES
Falling for Jesus but Struggling with Christians Over on Meetinghouse.xyz, Hye Sung wrote a post that immediately stirred up thoughts and feelings for me. Hye...