Yesterday was National Coming Out Day.

I came out to myself in 2003 and fully, publicly in 2005.  My memoir is my coming out story.

So, yesterday evening at our local progressive Christian bookstore, Urban Abbey, I did a National Coming Out Day book event.

I read a portion of my story about my struggle to reconcile my calling as a minister with my sexuality. Back in November 2003 I spent a day of private, spiritual retreat trying to decide what to do, but it was finally the airing of HBO’s A...