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In a healthy spiritual direction relationship, you should expect a safe, supportive, and affirming environment where God-given diversity is celebrated. When selecting a spiritual director, ask him or her questions about their ministry philosophy and their understanding of LGBT needs and spirituality. Negative messages you’ve gotten from the culture, perhaps your churches, family, and others, do not have to spoil you're relationship with God.
Our heritage as LGBT persons is quite rich. As LGBT persons, we have unique stories to share with each other, with the Church, and with society at large. We experience spirituality and our relationship with God as LGBT persons, as a sexual minority. This is where we have great strength in our exuberant natural diversity.
The resources on this section of the website are meant to be empowering and to offer some valuable insights into how to navigate Christianity or any religion that's wrestling with fully accepting its LGBT members. While we may not have chosen to be a Christian, our presence in the Church can help uplift the mystical Body of Christ, all it's members.
These resources include discussion of:
- Life as a minority and how that shapes our religious experience
- Why being queer is a significant gift from our Creator and what we can offer the Church and the world at large
- The little-known but very powerful Christian teaching about living with a well-formed Christian conscience, even when it goes against the grain of official Church teaching
- Insights into the "red hot" passages in the Bible that religious bigots misuse to abuse LGBT persons, and what they really mean when put into their historical and cultural context, the way the Bible actually should be read and interpreted
- Discerning one's sense of vocation or calling as an LGBT person, Christian, and vital piece of God's plan for the earth: Why am i here? What's my purpose on this swirling, watery blue/green planet?
- Engaging the world as a gifted and beautiful LGBT person created by God
- And finally, living a morally sound life that respects God, one's neighbor, and one's self as a sexual person who happens to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender
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