Content Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of hate crimes and a brutal murder of a Black man James Byrd. Jr. at the hands of white racists. The summer James Byrd Jr. was murdered, I was seventeen years old.  James was a forty-nine-year-old man in Jasper, Texas, a town just two-and-a-half hours away from my … Continue reading The Church Needs Herd Immunity from White Supremacy →

Leaving Evangelicalism for My Queer Christian Faith

by Naiomi Gonzalez

If you had told 16 year old me that at 31 years old I would be openly and proudly Bi/Pansexual while also identifying as a Christian, I would have laughed in your face. At 16 years old I believed the false narrative that in order to be Christian, I had to deny a key part … Continue reading Leaving Evangelicalism for My Queer Christian Faith →

Spiritual Practices for Queer Christians Coming Out of the Closet

by Tyler Sit

Queer people know what the tomb of Jesus feels like, because we know what the closet feels like.  As eight, or eighteen, or forty-eight year olds, we know that a hidden sexuality or gender identity is a boulder at the mouth of a cave you’re stuck in, the light just barely streaming in around the … Continue reading Spiritual Practices for Queer Christians Coming Out of the Closet →

Being an Anti-Racist is Like Learning to Cook

by Karen Gonzalez

In my family, it is usually other women who make tamales. Older women who know what they’re doing and don’t need silly things like recipes. But this year, my aunt Evelyn was sick with COVID as were so many people around the world. So there was grief mingled with a little bit of joy at … Continue reading Being an Anti-Racist is Like Learning to Cook →

Protests Are Not Supposed to be “Nice and Quiet”

by Elle Dowd

White people love to think of ourselves as Nice. This is especially true of a certain brand of white people, many of us middle class and hailing from the Midwest. We pat ourselves on the back with pride for being [Your State Here] Nice. Where I grew up, in a state that is about 94% … Continue reading Protests Are Not Supposed to be “Nice and Quiet” →

White Allies Need to Start Planning for Racism

by Irene Cho and Nathan Roberts

Responding to racism is hard. It’s palm sweaty, stomach churning, awkward silence, tempers flaring work.  And for white allies, who have not spent their entire lives responding to racism, most of us are new to this work and we don’t always get it right. Whether it is a racist uncle telling a shitty joke at … Continue reading White Allies Need to Start Planning for Racism →