Note: Most writings by participants in Bridges-Across are on the Policy Page which we call TIDH - Toward an International Discussion of Homosexuality.  Participants intros are on the Journeys Page . 
 
 

• A Conservative Christian Case for Civil Same Sex Marriage (Musingson.com)
• Bunker Hill He Came to be on the Side of Everyone (Worship that Works)
• Viginia Postrel: The Claims of Nature (Reason magazine)
• Brigid Shulte On abortion, old enemies find they share a goal (Phila Inquirer)
• Walter Wink The Gift of the Enemy (The Powers that Be)
• Interview with James Sears and James Carper about the 1998 book Curriculum, Religion, and Public Education

• Christianity Today Forum  Homosexuality and Public Policy
• Insider's Conversation Is the Religious Right Finished? 
• Thomas Schmidt A Pastoral Manifesto
• Daniel Taylor Are You Tolerant? (Should You Be?)
• Philip Yancey  A State of Ungrace

• Sonia Balcer: Critical Condition
• Sonia Balcer: Letter to The Advocate
• Tom Cole: Gays and Exgays Sharing the Pain of the Past
• Mike Jones: From a Ministry Director to Chuck Colson

• Berdaches and Assumptions about Berdaches
• Looking for Mr. Goodbar .. Gay Style: 
A Commentary on Matthew Shepherd's Death
• Sexual Orientation: The Sword that Cuts Two Ways
• A Thorny Issue: Tolerance and Parental Rights
• The Right To Be Spiritual
• Not an Easy Task: Undoing Religious Empire
• Prison Rape and the Spread of AIDS
• The Holidays: Ceremony for Everyone  
• Sweet Medicine Way
• One is the Sun

Book Reviews (reviewer)

• Gabriel Rotello  Sexual Ecology (Chandler Burr)
• Phyllis Burke  Gender Shock  (Gene Chase)
• Zucker and Bradley  Gender Identity Disorder and Psychosexual Problems in Adolescents and Children (Gene Chase)
• Thomas Schmidt Straight and Narrow (Justin Lee)

Sometimes

You can see the sky, but, because of the undercast, the earth becomes invisible. At other times it is just the pposite.

Yesterday 

Our heads, and our eyes, were in the clouds. In fact, the cloud even tried to enter the room. That happens at The Mountain

This morning

The waning moon and Venus could not be seen.   Below, there was a single light, as bright as the planet.

We long

For the clear days with the unobstructed view of the earth. And for the dark nights when the Milky Way appears.

Soon

It will be light enough to see what the spiders did last night. 
 

by Maggie Heineman, August 1996