Reeling: my Christian confession

The first time I really, truly came up against theology and ideology that differed from my upbringing was in college. Early in my college career, an LGBTQ advocacy group announced their visit to our Christian university campus. They didn’t ask to come, they announced what day they would be arriving. We were one of several stops on their national protest tour, one of several colleges they had identified as having restrictive / uninclusive language in our handbook. Every college they had visited prior to ours had barricaded them off of school property. Each university had enlisted the help of the police to ensure the group was not allowed on campus.…