I read a story yesterday that made my heart sing, that thrilled me and filled me with positivity. A Christian church in the Dallas area has launched a resistance network to care for transgender teenagers the Texas government is persecuting.
Those resistance leaders, who are risking arrest and imprisonment, remind me of my youth, of my former Christian idealism, and of the very best impulses of Christianity and Jesus followers — even though I’m a gay man and queer advocate who often feels persecuted by Christianity.