Levi Pierpont's Blog, page 8
June 26, 2019
How to be friends with a gay person if you don’t think queerness is the bee’s knees
We were standing outside the church doors, a calm summer evening just beginning as the sun descended and the wind rested. The past few weeks, I’d slowly felt more and more unwelcome in groups of people I counted as my closest friends. And I knew I needed to ask him. “I want to know. Are […]
June 22, 2019
Our Pride Comes in Many [Definitions]: An Open Letter to Ashley Giovannucci
Dear Ashley, This week, scrolling through my Facebook feed, I noticed a post an acquaintance shared from your blog, “Across My Heart,” which can be found at acrossmyheartministries.com. Our Pride Comes in Many Colors by Ashley Giovannucci In my approximation, your post is a half-hearted attack on the mere concept of Gay Pride, in which you […]
April 14, 2019
Queer Faith: a Collection of Resources
It’s been two months since I came out. Those 59 days have been full of texts, emails, Facebook messages, Instagram DMs, and conversations. This is to be expected. While the vast majority of my close friends were well aware of my orientation, many followers and Facebook friends were surprised. Not as much by the fact […]
March 10, 2019
My Story of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Being Embraced by God
Chapter One In bite-sized installments, I shared my testimony: who I was, who I am today—through the unconditional love and unraveling grace of Christ. I told my story this way because to do otherwise, I felt, would ignore the core of who I am. Because I am, first and foremost, a child of God, and […]
February 27, 2019
Chapter Seven
In hindsight, I see problems in the way I was treated, in the way my parents saw me, in the way I saw myself. Instead of embracing me, telling me everything was okay, telling me God still loved me unconditionally, telling me I could hope for a beautiful, wonderful life just like my siblings did, […]
February 22, 2019
Chapter Six
This series is meant to be read in chronological order. If you haven’t read chapters 1-5, you’ll want to find those before continuing. The October after that summer, as previously mentioned, my sister got married, 14 days after my 17th birthday. I was doing really well leading up to it, ecstatic for her. But that […]
February 21, 2019
Chapter Five
If you haven’t read chapters 1-4, you’ll want to find those first. Just head to levipierpont.com/[C for Chapter][chapter number]. The next summer was especially difficult. My older brother got married the winter before, and my older sister was getting married the autumn after—both opposite-sex marriages. I was deeply jealous, which I knew was wrong. But […]
February 17, 2019
Chapter Four
This series is heavily chronological. To read the three previous chapters, visit levipierpont.com/c1, /c2, and /c3, respectively. Next came a season of crippling doubt. I never went full atheist, but I certainly admitted to being agnostic. In a blog post, I wrote about my struggles with faith and God and asked people to pray for […]
February 14, 2019
Chapter Three
If you haven’t read the two previous chapters, you can find them at levipierpont.com/c1 and /c2, respectively. The real issues began to settle when I was entering into adolescence, as one might expect. Gradually, within the span of about six months, I came to understand that I was, well, not straight. I remember realizing that […]
February 7, 2019
Chapter Two
If you haven’t read chapter one yet, you can find that at levipierpont.com/c1. During my season of intense religiosity growing up, I memorized a passage that had quite an effect on my prayer life. “When you face all sorts of trials, you should think of them as wonderful, joyful things, because you know that trials in […]
