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  • #11 What are the main differences in how the “good news” of the gospel is being understood?

    December 13, 2017 Read More
  • How scientific research can become weaponized (despite intentions otherwise)

    December 21, 2016 Read More
  • #10 Is the LGBT-religious conservative conversation primarily about whether to love people (or not)?

    October 30, 2016 Read More
  • Dear Gay Community, We seem to have an irreconcilable disagreement about Who-We-Are…is that okay with you?

    October 30, 2016 Read More
  • Proposing a new (common) agenda for LGBT-RC conversation: Multiplying space & freedom

    September 30, 2016 Read More
  • Why is gay rights sweeping (too many) thoughtful, good-hearted people from my faith community?

    September 29, 2016 Read More
  • We’ve got some pretty enormous disagreements about the “public good” (and bad)…Can we talk about them?

    September 29, 2016 Read More
  • #9 Are gay, lesbian, transgender & straight people fundamentally different kinds of people?

    September 28, 2016 Read More
  • Can conversation about choice be gentle and generous – or is it inherently harsh?

    September 27, 2016 Read More
  • We don’t agree on what “choice” means…can we talk about it?

    September 24, 2016 Read More
  • Beyond forcing and fighting sexual attraction: Two ways people seek to move to a healthier place

    September 11, 2016 Read More
  • #8 What does it mean to force or fight or resist one’s sexuality?

    September 11, 2016 Read More
  • Can we stop pretending there is only ONE reasonable explanation for the tragic suicides of LGBT-identifying religious youth?

    July 12, 2016 Read More
  • How do human beings know who they really are anyway?

    April 1, 2016 Read More
  • Proposing a Third Space in the LGBT/Religious Conservative Back-and-Forth

    March 10, 2016 Read More
  • Misrepresenting LGBT/Religious Conservative Disagreements: Pleading for an Honest Conversation about What (Really) Divides Us

    March 3, 2016 Read More
  • Another perspective on “I just can’t stay in this church anymore…”

    February 21, 2016 Read More
  • An (Honest) Disagreement at the Heart of the LGBT-Conservative Religious Conflict…That (Almost) No One is Talking About

    February 14, 2016 Read More
  • Yes, Let’s PLEASE Have a Serious Conversation About Suicide!  Questions for the Public Conversation

    January 29, 2016 Read More
  • Recruiting a Team: Flirting with Curiosity in the New Year

    January 14, 2016 Read More
  • Beyond forcing and fighting sexual attraction: Two ways people seek to move to a healthier place

    Note: One of the most common and pervasive misconceptions of dialogue is that the overriding goal is to “maintain peace” – aka to make sure that everyone feels comfortable. This kind of perception can create…

  • #8 What does it mean to force or fight or resist one’s sexuality?

    Note:  As detailed elsewhere, children’s art invokes the curiosity, wonder, and “beginner’s mind” that makes for an especially productive conversation across difference. “As children we fall in love with the wonder of being alive,”…

  • Can we stop pretending there is only ONE reasonable explanation for the tragic suicides of LGBT-identifying religious youth?

    “We need to be able to hear and express [a question or idea] without the instant commencement of political warfare, without superimposing particular causes and constituencies over the narrative, as if every new development…

  • How do human beings know who they really are anyway?

    Central to the LGBT/religious conservative conversation is a question that’s been earnestly explored by human beings since their beginnings (whether in a garden or a cave) and continuing today in full force: Who are we?! (And…

  • Proposing a Third Space in the LGBT/Religious Conservative Back-and-Forth

    I’ve been thinking about something John Gustav-Wrathall shared with me recently, a man whose insight I’ve come to appreciate and respect.  He wrote about people’s sense of feeling invalidated in the current LGBT/religious conservative…

  • Misrepresenting LGBT/Religious Conservative Disagreements: Pleading for an Honest Conversation about What (Really) Divides Us

    Elder David Bednar, an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was recently asked a question about “homosexual Mormons.” As part of his explanation for why he’d prefer re-framing the question, Elder…

  • Another perspective on “I just can’t stay in this church anymore…”

    “It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, [for] a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for that supreme word of man, that single expression which he utters…

  • An (Honest) Disagreement at the Heart of the LGBT-Conservative Religious Conflict…That (Almost) No One is Talking About

    So I have an idea…something to help make this LGBT-Religious Conservative conversation a whole lot less painful. Have you ever been in a long, drawn out conversation with someone close to you that just gets uglier…

  • Yes, Let’s PLEASE Have a Serious Conversation About Suicide!  Questions for the Public Conversation

    Note:  The following questions and thoughts are my own, Jacob Hess, and not necessarily representing the larger writing team, which is currently collaborating on various “maps” for this and other issues arising out of…

  • Recruiting a Team: Flirting with Curiosity in the New Year

     “Dialogue cannot be reduced to the act of one person’s depositing’ ideas in another, nor can it become a simple exchange of ideas to be ‘consumed’ by the discussants” – Paulo Freire I’ve always known…

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