Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

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

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

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

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