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Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay

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“Evangelism always follows from relationships”: Daniel Mattson on same-sex attraction and witnessing to the Faith

July 5, 2018 Leslie Fain 9

The author of Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay says evangelizing the LGBT community starts the same way all evangelization starts: with building relationships. […]

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Why the label “gay” impoverishes and harms our view of the human person

June 13, 2017 Jim Graves 9

Daniel Mattson is a writer, speaker, and professional musician whose new book Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual Reality and Found Peace (Ignatius Press), is described as a “frank memoir” […]

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