An Open Letter to Rev. Franklin Graham from a “Small Church” Pastor


Source: An Open Letter to Rev. Franklin Graham from a “Small Church” Pastor

About Sheila Morris

Sheila Morris is a personal historian, essayist with humorist tendencies, lesbian activist, truth seeker and speaker in the tradition of other female Texas storytellers including her paternal grandmother. In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality. She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in 2008. Her writings have been included in various anthologies - most recently the 2017 Saints and Sinners Literary Magazine. Her latest book, Four Ticket Ride, was released in January, 2019. She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike, Charly and Carl. She is also Naynay to her two granddaughters Ella and Molly James who light up her life for real. Born in rural Grimes County, Texas in 1946 her Texas roots still run wide and deep.
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4 Responses to An Open Letter to Rev. Franklin Graham from a “Small Church” Pastor

  1. Wayside Artist says:

    Excellent! Peter lays it out, but so many “Christians” have shuttered their hearts even to their own Bible. My Alabama and Illinois cousins are praying hard for me. It’s a lost cause. 😀

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    • I know the feeling, Ann. Some of my most beloved cousins think I am going straight to hell…and not in a hand basket. I love them, but honestly those feelings are their own issues….not mine any longer, thank goodness.

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    • I know the feeling, Ann. Some of my most beloved cousins think I am going straight to hell…and not in a hand basket. I love them, but honestly those feelings are their own issues….not mine any longer, thank goodness.
      Lost causes are often the most important ones.

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  2. Luanne @ TFK says:

    My favorite line was about the 10 feet deep of corpses.

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