The Longest Email Ever: Dating A Trans* Person

The Longest Email Ever: Dating A Trans* Person

The subject line read “Help”, and it was delivered from an email address that began with the word ‘hacked’ (not a great start). What’s more, the first lines (from this individual) described themselves as a ‘not-frequent-enough’ church attender as well as a being...
Transgender Discourse: Are We Helping or Hurting?

Transgender Discourse: Are We Helping or Hurting?

In recent weeks, there has been a lot of talk here in Colorado over transgender rights. In particular, Colorado passed House Bill 25-1312, also known as the Kelly Loving Act. Kelly Loving was a transgender person who was killed in the Club Q mass shooting in 2022. The...
Prayers for a Different Kind of Pride Month

Prayers for a Different Kind of Pride Month

Pride 2025—What’s Changed? These past several years entering June Pride, I’ve often wondered, “What is the point of this event?” Pride used to simply be a weekend in June. Now Pride is a month long. I also counted on GLAAD’s calendar, another 48 LGBTQ holidays of...
Forty Years and Counting

Forty Years and Counting

As I stand on the threshold of the fortieth anniversary of Where Grace Abounds (WGA), I am filled with a profound sense of gratitude and wonder. Established in July of 1986, WGA was born from a shared vision to “…guide and support men and women who seek to understand...
Our Bodies Tell God’s Story

Our Bodies Tell God’s Story

To speak on the topic of the body is to wade into the tension of our cultural moment. It’s to walk into the open wound of what many people feel. For some, it’s the primary aim of their life, or maybe it’s the objection for following Jesus. Since 2015, I have observed...
New Wugga Merch: A New Resource from Where Grace Abounds

New Wugga Merch: A New Resource from Where Grace Abounds

“What in the world is ‘Wugga’?”, you might ask?  Well, Wugga is just an affectionate term coined over the years to take the very long name of Where Grace Abounds, shorten it to our acronym “WGA”. Then shorten it even more, so folks just call us “Wugga” occasionally....