Maxwell Kuzma

Transgender Catholic Maxwell Kuzma reflects on the recent Vatican note affirming the participation of trans people in church life.

Watching current events as a transgender person is enough to make Max Kuzma's head spin. He and other LGBTQ+ Catholics are sustained by finding God in living out their authentic identity and sharing their gifts with pride.

Leveling theological rejections at people who are humbling themselves before God looks nothing like the example of Jesus. Maybe instead, the church can meet in shared vulnerability — like washing each other's feet.

Growing up as a young LGBTQ person of faith in the Catholic Church, I was familiar with two things: uncertainty and waiting.

Book review: Abigail Favale's book promises "an intellectually honest, respectful, and faithfully Catholic view" tracing the philosophical origin of gender studies. Yet it leaves out quite a bit of the story.

It is clear that Warren Jeffs used a position of power and authority to manipulate and control people for his own ends. But for the members of his congregation, it was not that simple.

Book review: Outlove is the biographical survival story of Julie Rodgers, who grew up fiercely evangelical and passionately in love with Jesus with one small problem: She was attracted to other women.