The Table After Pride My imagination always seems to return to a table. Around it are the people Pride month has asked us to see more clearly. The bisexual Christian who no longer has to divide faith from honesty. The trans person whose life is not treated as a
A Better Hope There are times when I struggle with the language of hope. Too often, it has been used to ask oppressed people for one more sacrifice. One more season of waiting. One more compromise. One more call to patience while someone else decides whether your dignity is
Pride Before Pride One of the loneliest things I believed as a young queer Christian was not that I was the only one. I knew there were other queer people in the world, and I knew there were other Christians trying to make sense of their lives. What I
Parenting 2SLGBTQIA+ Kids When a young person comes out to a parent, they are usually not looking for a perfect response. They are trying to answer a much more immediate question: Am I still safe here? Am I still loved? Research consistently shows that family acceptance is one
Marriage Equality & Beyond Marriage equality matters. For countless couples, legal recognition meant dignity, protection, and the simple affirmation that their relationships were worthy of the same respect afforded to others. In Canada, that recognition came in 2005. In the United States, it came a decade later. For many
The I Is For Intersex Some people are born with sex characteristics that do not fit the usual medical and social categories for male or female bodies. That is what intersex means. It can involve chromosomes, hormones, gonads, genitals, or reproductive anatomy. The injustice intersex people have named
Pride & Trans Elders Pride did not appear from nowhere. Long before some of us arrived, other people were already risking their safety, their relationships, their work, and sometimes their lives to make room for a future they might not fully get to enjoy. Many of the trans
What Can You Teach Us About Pride? As a bisexual Christian man, I know something about exclusion, belonging, faith, and the cost of living honestly. But Pride has also taught me how much I cannot represent. As a white, cisgender man, I cannot speak as a trans woman,
Pride All Over The World Pride can look very different depending on where you stand. In Canada, many of our conversations focus on policy, representation, church inclusion, and public belonging. Those conversations matter. But they can also make it easy to forget that the global story of 2SLGBTQIA+ resistance
Pride, Pentecost & the Tower of Babel Over time, I find myself reading the story of Pentecost alongside the Tower of Babel. At first glance, they seem like opposites. Babel ends with people speaking different languages and being scattered. Pentecost begins with people speaking different languages and somehow
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