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I'm just a guy. Above all else, in spite of anything written by me, said about me, or linked to me, I'm just a guy.

I grew up in your classic good Christian family. I've studied, memorized, and recited the Bible. I've held the hymnal, performed in the plays, served on the missions field. I've fund-raised, evangelized, and proselytized. I led Bible studies in High School, and taught others to in vocational ministry.

To look at most of my life, you'd think I was born and bred to be the 'right' kind of Christian. Though by now you've probably figured out I'm different than most Christians. Whether you call me a 'thinking' Christian (though that sounds pretentious), 'postmodern,' 'emerging,' or even if you think negatively of me for who I love or what I'll write here, I've been through a journey of faith in the last four years that has led me to a very different place in my faith and in my view of God than what I grew up with.

Being gay (surely you've figured that part of me out by now) is a difficult situation for any person; all the much more difficult if you've got some religion in you. Over the life of this blog, I hope to explore not just my life, but the lives and perspectives of my many peers. Many different people respond to the tension between those two facets of life in many different ways.

In my case, I believe God made me, and loves me, as I am. I believe he designed us for relationship. I believe it is far too easy to throw Scripture around, define what God is supposed to be like, and confuse our legalism for faith. This is my starting point. I seek to explore life as a gay Christian and write about it so people can see another point of view. I want readers to try to see deeper into who we are as people and followers of Jesus. I want to give a voice to many who remain silenced for any reason.

There's details about how I'll approach some things in the FAQs. Check those out, and then join me in this ongoing discussion of life.

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