Editor’s Note: For Pride Month, I’ve updated and edited my four-part affirming series. If you’ve read it before, it does have new resources and content, so it’s not just a rehash. Also, I’ve added an audio component! You can now listen to this essay here on Substack or add it to your preferred podcast catcher. Directions for that are at the end of the essay, and anytime I add audio to any essay, and you’re subscribed, it will automatically update like any podcast. Magic! People often ask why I keep this behind a paywall; it’s for the comments. I want this to be a space where we can ask questions in good faith and help each other, but obviously, comments with any hint of homophobia or transphobia will be immediately removed. Onwards and upwards.
Any shift in theology will almost always accompany a story of personal change as well. There’s a bit in Just Mercy where Bryan Stevenson is told that “you can’t understand most of the important things from a distance…you have to get close.”1
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