Steadfast Love

By Believe Out Loud | October 22, 2013 |
A gold wedding ring sits on top of an open bible.

“I’m going to love you till I don’t love you no more…” So sang a song from the speakers in The Sports Connection, my gym when I lived in West Hollywood. I found the words funny, but when I laughed about them with a fellow weightlifter, he thought he was joining in the joke when…

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Love Will Make A Way: Interracial & Same-Sex Marriage

By Believe Out Loud | March 26, 2013 |

My parents wrestled with the idea of me marrying my partner. The sanctuary was packed but my father didn’t come. Dad was brought up in the Deep South and my husband looked like the people who had practiced the nauseating hatred of Jim Crow in my father’s hometown. News of the support of our union,…

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My Faith Taught Me To Love

By Believe Out Loud | March 20, 2013 |

It was an ordinary morning, except my partner was the one still lazing about in bed rather than me. I intended to wake her with a kiss and a cup of tea but I was suddenly stopped short. I stood fixed in the bedroom doorway watching her sleep when it struck me: I love her. This was…

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