Thank God that someone also came to ask me, “Do you want to be healed?”
Like the man in the story, I said, “Yes! But I have no one!”
Continue reading “OC2: Minister Yadi Martinez”Yadi Martinez-Reyna in
“Courage to Heal”
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Continue reading “OC2: Mr Enzi Tanner”To me, life is all about the search for my most authentic self, but it took me a while before I came to understand that things like gender or religion could change.
Enzi Tanner in
“Finding Myself in Community”
OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance
I began formally using the term “OtherWise-gendered” in OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation (now available in hard cover!). However, framing an anthology around the term “OtherWise” is a different play. Rather than take up space up front unpacking the term, I created an Appendix that talked about it. It is excerpted here:
By Mx Chris Paige
Excerpt from OtherWise Christian 2: Stories of Resistance, edited by Mx Chris Paige
Continue reading “OC2: What is “OtherWise-gendered”?”
Continue reading “OC2: Dr Virginia Mollenkott”I believe the time has come for Christians to widen their welcome to include the full range of human diversity, including gender diversity.
Dr Virginia Mollenkott
“Gender Diversity and Christian Community”
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Continue reading “OC2: Deacon Ryan Amir Harris”I found the love of God in a whole new way once I told the truth. I wanted to share that story and be a witness to the unconditional love of God!
Ryan Amir Harris in
“Finding Freedom”
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Continue reading “OC2: Mx Mycroft Masada”
For me, being interfaith and intergender has always been intertwined. I am a child of an interfaith family who is an interfaith person in an interfaith marriage.Mycroft Masada in
“In the Beginning”
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Continue reading “OC2: Rev Debra Hopkins”My story is only one among many told by brave and courageous individuals who have made a commitment to fighting against injustice.
Debra Hopkins in
“Songs of Struggle, Songs of Resilience”
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Continue reading “OC2: Ms Rebecca Kerns”If you want to walk with us, you need to recognize our strength and power. … Before you use us as a talking point, please stop to speak face-to-face with an intersex person.
Ms. Rebecca Kerns in
“Dear Pastor”
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Continue reading “OC2: Chaplain Mir Plemmons”I could not find rest in the Bible, but I clung to it until from this same book leaped this eunuch, powerful and strong and politically savvy… claiming his place in Jerusalem’s Temple to worship.
Mir Plemmons in
“The Ethiopian Eunuch–and Me”
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Continue reading “OC2: The Rev Mykal Shannon”[N]ot long ago, God gave me a revelation that empowered me finally to stand, knowing that I am beautifully and wonderfully made just as I am…
Mykal Shannon in
“A Revelation”
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OtherWise Christian 