BY DEV CUNYNCLR Contributor As a child, I loved to dress up in my dad’s Sunday best to preach the Good News of Jesus to a congregation of furry stuffed animals. Little did I know that my favorite form of make-believe would foreshadow the painful journey of deciding between a call to ministry and fully […]
Mathew Shurka
BY MATHEW SHURKANCLR Contributor Six weeks and I’ll make you straight. Guaranteed. That’s what a mental health professional told me when I was 16 years old, and trying to understand the feelings I was having for another teenage boy. My father—afraid that our close-knit family would be ostracized in our community because of my sexual […]