For most of my life I have only known jobs where the closet was essential to my paycheck. My first job out of college was teaching at a Catholic high school, a role that has become synonymous with yearly headlines declaring a beloved teacher fired for their gay lifestyle. I…

Where do you go when it hurts to sing about God, but miss the connection doing so once brought? Kevin Garcia wrestled with the place for adapting the praise and worship classics and creating new ones within inclusive church spaces: And that works for me. For other folks, it…

Not that long ago, I was living in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas, where I had done a lot of growing up. The Supreme Court had just heard arguments on both the Defense of Marriage Act and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and was expected to lay down decisions on both…

There is a scene in the movie Lion where Nicole Kidman follows around the house a young boy she and her husband in Australia have just adopted from India. He pauses in front of the TV and she leans over him and sounds it out, “Tel-evis-ion. …

I went because there were mountains on the horizon. Sitting in Dallas, where I had lived for many years, I would look out and see emptiness. The same vast sky, the same basic people. In Texas I made myself fit in, and I was starting to hate it. …