Living According to Someone Else’s Word

I can tell you from personal experience that being bullied and harassed for not measuring up to “normal,” is a pain that aches through and through. And to experience it in the midst of “God’s people” is even more devastating. Decades of silence and the lack of...

Considering Christianity and LGBT+ Activism

Hello… My name is Wayne Blakely… Director of Know His Love Ministries. The world is made up of many different kinds of people and cultures. America prides itself in being the land of freedom. Freedom of speech and religious freedom. Today… militant activists are...

A Question of Identity

Wayne, your journey has led you to proclaim a different message than what we often hear from popular culture. Why is that? For years, feelings were my truth, including intense feelings for the same sex. So I lived according to those feelings for nearly 40 years. One...

Reaching Out

This article is the unedited version of what was prepared for The Adventist Review April 15, 2010  issue. Growing up on the Word of God, left very little question as to what constitutes sin. It seemed pretty clear cut until I was nearing adulthood and began to have...

Dilemmas of a Homosexual

Before my eyes ever saw this world, a very determined mother proclaimed during her entire pregnancy, that she would not have a boy.  My arrival was her bitter disappointment. After being abused for eighteen months, I was adopted into a conservative Adventist home. As...