by Libby Carroll | Jul 15, 2022 | Opinion
Author’s Disclaimer: Throughout this article, I have opted to use person-first and disability-first language interchangeably when referring to people with disabilities. Disabled people have thoughtful and varied reasons for preferring one form of language over the...
by Jaziah Masters | Jul 14, 2022 | Opinion
I’m used to getting puzzled looks when I tell people about my work. Whenever I introduce myself as the advocacy and outreach manager at BJC (Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty), the response is usually something along the lines of, “Wow! You’re so young!”...
by Rachel Ain | Jul 14, 2022 | Opinion
How does one define themselves in 2022? Through their nationality? Gender? Sexual identity? Religious (or non-religious) practice? Profession? A combination of everything? While these weren’t questions that I focused on in any meaningful way when I was a child, I knew...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Jul 13, 2022 | Opinion
My life as an openly queer pastor has led me to some interesting conversations. A few years ago, I was engaged in a conversation in the comment section on one of my LGBTQ+-affirming Facebook posts with a woman in her late 50’s or early 60’s whom I’ll call Sue (name...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 12, 2022 | Opinion
“We’re fakes.” Those were the first words from my mouth as my colleague Mitch Randall and I departed a June 29 conversation in Dallas with Lorenzo Ortiz. We reconnected with Lorenzo to hear him calmly and confidently share with us his recent experience of being...
by Kira Dewey | Jul 12, 2022 | Opinion
Many Christians today demonstrate the belief that it is up to themselves to “save” their non-Christian neighbors at the expense of loving and civil conversation. While Christians verbally acknowledge their own fallibility and God’s saving grace, their behavior tends...
