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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In bite-sized installments, I will be sharing my testimony: who I was, who I am today—through the unconditional love and unraveling grace of Christ. I’m telling my story this way because to do otherwise, I feel, would be to ignore the core of who I am. Because I am, first and foremost, a child of […]