Many of you know that I have been struggling with my faith and especially with organized religion over the last five years. I have fought very hard to hold on to my faith in God/Jesus during a dangerous politicized religious climate and my kids coming out LGBTQ+. I’m very thankful I have worked hard to retain my faith in a Divine God who loves the world, but it has been difficult for these reasons, mainly because of how the Religious... Read more

I am going to speak out about this because it is wrong. Currently, some public school districts are receiving financial incentives to adopt a Bible-infused curriculum in Texas public schools although it’s not required (at least not right now). I submitted a testimonial against this at the state level just as a did against the private school voucher plan which takes money from underfunded public schools who are already struggling financially to better-fund private schools. As a lifelong Christian, church-goer,... Read more

I’m not playing around anymore. I’m not sitting idly by and watching right-winged fascism take over our country, my home state of Texas, and local communities. I will not go down without a fight. Do you want to know how I know this? Come join me for a day in the parent LGBTQ+ community. I am losing a tremendous amount of patience for churches and other Christians who sit idly by and not say anything about an authoritarian right-winged regime... Read more

It’s definitely time. It’s actually past time for mostly conservative middle aged, older white men, and especially ministers, to take some serious responsibility for coercing the voting rights of others since the Reagan era. I am speaking to those men and female counterparts who have coerced their families and flocks to vote Republican since the Reagan era and in recent years for Trump by using the abortion issue as a weapon of abuse to get their way. It is overdue... Read more

I want to clarify who the Religious Right is because sometimes conservative Christians become upset with me when I call out the shenanigans of the Religious Right. Here is a definition from Wikipedia although it’s not always the best source. “The Christian Right (Religious Right) are Christian/Catholic political factions characterized by their strong support of socially conservative and traditionalist policies. These specific political Christian conservatives seek to influence politics and public policy with their interpretation of the teachings of Christianity.”... Read more

 I haven’t published anything in a while. My mind, heart, and even body haven’t been able to bear the current state of our country and the free world.  For the first time in American history on February 20, 2025, the USA sided with Russia instead of Ukraine during a United Nations vote.    Reuters, an internationally respected news source, gives more detail here. Many other articles can be found on this subject. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-refusing-co-sponsor-un-motion-backing-ukraine-ahead-war-anniversary-diplomats-2025-02-20/ When the USA will not co-sponsor support... Read more

I want to thank the many friends who have invited us to their various LGBTQ+ faith communities here in San Antonio. Grant and I have been attending St. Mark’s Episcopal Church of San Antonio since Christmas. I have a special arrangement with my local Catholic Archdiocese to also practice certain elements of Catholicism because part of me will always be Catholic. There are many things I will always love about the Catholic Church, like its long-standing commitment to migrants and... Read more

Part of my family’s faith journey was in the Anglican Church of Nigeria from 2012-2016.  After an abrupt church split, we left in 2016, well before any of our children came out LGBTQ+.  As a mother who loves and tried to protect her children, I didn’t understand the oppression and dangers LGBTQ+ people were facing in Africa and just how dangerously anti-LGBTQ+ parts of Africa can be.  I cannot express how thankful I am that we were not in that... Read more

After everything I have fully learned within the last two years regarding the role religion and Church structures play in either helping or harming the LGBTQ+ community, here is the way I identify now on the Catholic-leaning end of Christianity. I’m both Episcopalian and Catholic, but I’m more Episcopalian in the geographical areas where the Catholic Church actively legislates against the gay community in both diocesan policy and civil law. Yes, how the Catholic Church operates and reacts to the... Read more

For some of you who read my publications and blogs, I share my faith journey. As of today, some of the biggest regrets about my faith and religious life were leaving the Episcopal Church during my years at Baylor University from 1990-1994, starting a more conservative (instead of progressive) church life with my husband of 30 years in 1994, some regrets (not all) about becoming Catholic in 2016, and not understanding LGBTQ+ life issues much sooner.  Even though I have... Read more