Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.