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Jordan Alvarez
I do not need a debate about whether it should have been possible. I am asking what actually helped you separate God from the harm done in God's name.
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For those who stayed Christian after coming out: what made that possible?
I do not need a debate about whether it should have been possible. I am asking what actually helped you separate God from the harm done in God's name.
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Keisha Bell
If you come, pay attention to whether welcome is embodied in names, pronouns, leadership, and who gets to exhale.
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Rowan Price
You deserve a church where belonging is ordinary, not negotiated.
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Rowan Price
The safest spaces I have found were the ones where I could relax before I had to explain anything.
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