Letter to my teenage self: Liz
Hello from the future… the year is 2020 and so much has changed for you: you struggle to sleep past 7am at the weekends (inconceivable I...
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Gathering Space
- May 29, 2020
- 2 min
Letter to my teenage self: Sally
What would I tell my teenage self? I went to school in the 80s. Gay people were like John Inman on “Are you being served?”, my Dad called...
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Gathering Space
- May 27, 2020
- 2 min
Letter to my teenage self: Merinda
Dear worried young teacher, Thank you for your worries of 4am, but do try to sleep as the days at study and at school will all be easier...
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Gathering Space
- May 25, 2020
- 2 min
Letter to my teenage self: Rachel H
Hiya honey, Someone wrote to us at Two:23 the other day and said they were glad they'd seen we didn't all have three heads. It reminded...
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Gathering Space
- May 23, 2020
- 2 min
Letter to my teenage self: Jeremy
Firstly I want to say that I love you so much and I really hope you can listen to what I have to say with an open heart and mind. I know...
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Gathering Space
- May 21, 2020
- 2 min
Letter to my teenage self: Zoe
Hello friend You do know, don’t you, that you’re a good friend to many people and over the years this will continue in work and in your...
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Gathering Space
- May 19, 2020
- 2 min
Letter to my teenage self: Rachel G
Dear Rachel, So you’re 14; you have so much to learn and so much to experience. There will be sadness, hurt and rejection, but also so...
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Gathering Space
- Feb 18, 2020
- 2 min
Gravity
The strangest things can spark memories, can't they, and as I was making my way home from meeting a friend the other day, I realised I...
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Gathering Space
- Feb 14, 2020
- 2 min
Love in the mirror
If someone responds to one of my profiles on (many!) dating websites and tells me I’m handsome I simply reply, “Yes, I agree!”. Some...
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Gathering Space
- Feb 7, 2020
- 2 min
Love delayed
I recently found an old diary and this entry stuck out to me: “All I know is when I think about dating, I like the thought of dating a...
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Gathering Space
- Feb 2, 2020
- 2 min
Invisible
I tell you I feel invisible in the church. Invisible in the ‘traditional evangelical’ churches and conferences. Never spoken about,...
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Gathering Space
- Jan 15, 2020
- 2 min
I was born a lesbian: I choose to follow Christ
When I moved into a new place a while ago, one job was to display a collection of my photos on one wall. While getting sucked into a...
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Gathering Space
- Jan 13, 2020
- 2 min
Once upon a time
Once upon a time there was a little girl who was a bit different; everyone thought that she was a boy. She was a very kind and caring...
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Gathering Space
- Jan 11, 2020
- 1 min
Out of the ashes
My new beginnings started on bonfire night in 2014 when I wandered back to the smouldering bonfire at the end of the night to pray alone....
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Gathering Space
- Jan 9, 2020
- 2 min
Beauty in brokenness
I realised my sexual orientation from age seven when I fell for my Year 3 student teacher, and was fixated with other boys at school and...
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Gathering Space
- Jan 7, 2020
- 2 min
“And so each venture is a new beginning …”
T S Eliot, throughout his ‘Four Quartets’ has some pretty deep things to say about experience as a sentient being within time, and many...
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Gathering Space
- Jan 4, 2020
- 2 min
Every time
Every time it’s like the first time. Every time I drop the words into a space that seems to fit them, stand back, and wait to see what...
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Gathering Space
- Jan 1, 2020
- 3 min
Wonderfully made
Imagine, if you will, a gay teenager in a vicarage on a council estate in South Bristol in the early 90s. No internet, virtually no out...
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Gathering Space
- Dec 24, 2019
- 2 min
New beginnings
A new year, a new start. We find one of the biggest obstacles to LGBT people being accepted in UK churches is that Christians aren’t...
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