Emerging: A Collection of Essays on Identity, Faith Dislocation, Queer Reckoning & Formation (ePub eBook)
When I knew it was time to signal to the world that I was gay and that I needed to step away from my membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I did it by writing. Over four years, my published essays chronicled my journey from closeted, orthodox Mormonness to post-faith, identity-affirmed discovery. This is a collection of those pieces.
Heartfelt and hurting, revealing and celebratory, these essays explore what it means to be formed in a faith tradition that limits and denies one’s deepest longings, and the messy freedom in reckoning with truth, the deconstruction of faith and the emerging of self.
When I knew it was time to signal to the world that I was gay and that I needed to step away from my membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I did it by writing. Over four years, my published essays chronicled my journey from closeted, orthodox Mormonness to post-faith, identity-affirmed discovery. This is a collection of those pieces.
Heartfelt and hurting, revealing and celebratory, these essays explore what it means to be formed in a faith tradition that limits and denies one’s deepest longings, and the messy freedom in reckoning with truth, the deconstruction of faith and the emerging of self.
When I knew it was time to signal to the world that I was gay and that I needed to step away from my membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I did it by writing. Over four years, my published essays chronicled my journey from closeted, orthodox Mormonness to post-faith, identity-affirmed discovery. This is a collection of those pieces.
Heartfelt and hurting, revealing and celebratory, these essays explore what it means to be formed in a faith tradition that limits and denies one’s deepest longings, and the messy freedom in reckoning with truth, the deconstruction of faith and the emerging of self.