A couple years ago, as a freshly baptized Christian, I had planned to write a trilogy on the Christian attitude towards queerness. I decided to put this project on hold however after a discussion with a devout Christian who had assisted me in my coming to faith; advising that these were important questions, but it would be better to develop in my own understanding of Christianity before writing on such topics. I obliged out of humility, and now I appreciate that this was very

TW // Trauma, self-harm, mental illness ----- There is a difference between seeing someone actively trying to destroy themselves right in front of your eyes when you are sixteen years old and not knowing what to do about it, or how to stop it, and quite genuinely not being able to understand, and ten years later finding out there is a book that has been written (curiously, ten years ago) on how universal, how known, how binding, albeit difficult, that particular experience

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