On my honor: Reflections from a gay Eagle Scout
On Thursday, the Boy Scouts of America will vote on a revision of their membership standards. Under the proposed standards, the Scouts will not deny membership to any boy on the basis of sexual...
View ArticleBeauty in the Midst of Tension
Copyright © 2013 by Gregg Webb We are people who enjoy comfort. It is easy to exist within a bubble where our ideas and world-views are only confirmed and never challenged. We are prone to shy away...
View ArticleReflections on Russia
I grew up in the Eastern Orthodox Church and continue to call her home so whenever I see her handling the topic of homosexuality poorly it grieves me. This has never been so true as with the continued...
View ArticleGrief and Faithfulness
Over the last few months I’ve been slowly working through what it looks like to grieve the loss of the “what might have been.” For me the “what might have been,” is the husband I will never have. As a...
View ArticleThe Cloud of Witnesses
Copyright Gregg Webb 2012 There are a number of factors that contribute to my conservative views as a celibate-gay Christian. The traditional view of marriage that I’ve held my whole life rests on...
View ArticleForsaking All Others
For one of my graduate school classes last year we learned to create lists of goals with a counseling client, a process called “goaling.” Our professor went through the process with a classmate and...
View ArticleFriendship and the Kingdom
A common critique of celibate gay Christians is the perception that we attempt to swap out romantic intimacy for friendship. Instead of having same-sex romantic partners we simply have spiritual...
View ArticleComing Out Orthodox, Revisited*
Copyright 2012, Gregg Webb I don’t know what to do about homosexuality. What I do know, however, is that what I have written here is my understanding of what God and Christ would have us do, according...
View ArticleA Call to Empathy
Copyright 2015 Gregg Webb It has been a difficult season for me. I’ve been transitioning cities, working through heartbreak, living with nearly constant heartache, beginning the long-term career job...
View ArticleHow Should We Then Live?
The recent debate surrounding the essay “Conjugal Friendship” by Giacomo Sanfilippo has yet again reminded me of a the importance of dialogue surrounding sexual minorities in the Orthodox Church. I’m...
View ArticleSexual Minorities in the Orthodox Church: Towards a Better Conversation
A few months ago I was invited to become one of the contributors to a new Eastern Orthodox blog called Orthodoxy in Dialogue. At the time I had just written my post How Should We Then Live? which was a...
View ArticleHeartbreak and Celibacy Pt. 1
Part 1: What Heartbreak and Heartache Have Taught Me About Myself How do you live with heartbreak when you were never supposed to fall in love? What happens when you fall in love with a friend and you...
View ArticleHeartbreak and Celibacy Pt. 2
(See Part 1) Part 2: What Heartbreak and Heartache Have Taught Me About Heart The second time I fell in love was with a new friend I met during my last year in St. Louis. I’ll call him Brad. This time,...
View ArticleHeartbreak and Celibacy Pt. 3
(See Part 1 & Part 2) Part 3: What Heartbreak and Heartache Have Taught Me About Community I’m a verbal processor and am usually a miserable failure at not gushing most details of my life with...
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