Shawn Graves

“If God says homosexuality is a sin, why didn’t he answer my child’s many prayers pleading to be changed? Why does God apparently condemn people for something they were born with and that he won’t change for them? For both child and parent, these questions can lead to a crisis of faith.”
― David Ferguson, Christianity and Homosexuality - Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives

“Maybe my story needs to be told specifically because it is less heart wrenching. In spite of periods where I have struggled and been in pain, my story provides generous glimpses into what a Christian attitude toward homosexuality might look like.”
― David Ferguson, Christianity and Homosexuality - Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives

“The word union itself seemed to be a dog whistle in the South, code for undeserving people of color who needed a union to compensate for some flaw in their character. As the workers spoke, I realized that it couldn’t be a coincidence that, to this day, the region that is the least unionized, with the lowest state minimum wages and the weakest labor protections overall, was the one that had been built on slave labor—on a system that compensated the labor of Black people at exactly zero.”
― Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

“In my mind, choice is the basis of Christianity, but the choice is not about sexuality, it is about how we treat other people. That is the choice about which we should be most concerned.”
― David Ferguson, Christianity and Homosexuality - Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives