A Italian Sonnet — This is Your dwelling place, built for Your pleasure, Your Tabernacle deep within the wood, Where I will sit and worship at Your foot Stool where our heirs will rule and reign forever. The love within these walls no scale can measure, And no one else has ever understood That I am…

Befriending gay people in order to change them is not real love — Michael Brown, Christian Post op-ed contributor and anti-LGBTQ+ activist, asks the question, “What do we say to a committed same-sex couple raising children that they love?” His answer sounds nice on the surface, but is more of the same old “love the sinner, hate the sin” pretend kindness. I’ve written…

He is miffed she won’t respond to his rebuke — How dare she? Back in December, Larry Tomczak, Christian Post Op-Ed Contributor, wrote a rebuke to Amy Grant for having the gall to host a lesbian wedding on her property. Grant “declined to read it.” I wrote at the time that it was none of Tomczak’s business. Now, Tomczak is throwing a hissy…

Land calls Andy Stanley’s observation about LGBTQ faith “astounding” — Andy Stanley is the founder of North Point Ministries and the son of one of the biggest names in the American Evangelical church: Charles Stanley, founder of In Touch Ministries. In 2012, John Blake reported for CNN that an incident while Andy was growing up stuck with him: One Sunday…

Prompt: Portrait of My Parent — Bright eyes and vibrant curls; Eager for life and love. She was wounded, but not crushed; Scarred, but not destroyed; Longing to be free. Bright blue, wide open full of hope, Ready for the world. Not yet broken. Not yet dulled. She met the world with open arms, And loved with…

Christian schools must “protect” Christian children from the children of same-sex parents — A viper pit Christian children “can become very confused” if they were to be exposed to the children of LGBTQ+ parents, says Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, according to Right Wing Watch’s Kyle Mantala in the New Civil Rights Movement. Mantala writes: “That’s like putting kids in a viper pit,”…

A Kyrielle — My self and soul they ridiculed, They burdened me with harsh dogma, And broke my back with brutal rules, But they will never conquer me. My God is righteous, just, and fair: He cleaved the chains they made for me And let them fall in their own snare. …