Being free is good...
It feels like I have known Justin Lee since he was a toddler! Seriously, we "met" online in 1996 ('97?) via an old-school discussion forum type thing called Bridges Across the Divide (BA). It is no longer available on the Internet... but there is an archived copy of one of the BA pages. BA is the origin of the underlying premise of the various …
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Last night, around midnight to 1 am #SBlackOKC tweeted... I asked if his "rebuke" tweet was about his hateful self-serving comments he left here and here on my blog. This is our exchange to my question: Even without explicit confirmation, it's clear Stephen (the Vice Chair of ex-gay/conversion ministry Restored Hope Network) …
A Facebook friend private messaged me some screen caps of their conversation with an ex-gay/conversion ministry leader. Their conversation was about a link that person shared attacking another person who left the ex-gay/conversion ministry world. My friend was defending the man it attacked. It was a vicious old article that keeps popping up every …
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I have been quiet about this except with my friends on Facebook (not on public posts.) However, I just sent an email and wanted to share it. A person claiming to be in HR for Franklin Graham's organization Samaritan's Purse said they believed God "led" them to me in an effort to find someone to handle Franklin's social media accounts. It seems to …
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On Monday, a dear friend of mine called. They are a high profile Christian leader who hasn't "come out" publicly yet (they will when the time is right for them and their family.) We talked for about an hour and many things will stick with me. It was a divinely timed phone conversation. The one thing I will share in this post is that they said …
From time to time I will take messages I read (or receive) from ex-gay/conversion ministry leaders and turn them into blog posts. Will quote them verbatim but the bolded/italicized/underlined parts of their quotes are my emphasis. - Randy ------- RHN Director Anne Paulk writes on June 16th and republishes on July 10th: "Tolerance is a …
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