CanyonWalker Connections

06/13/2026

I've known Matthew Vines since before he started The Reformation Project and was his first board member.

I believe deeply in the work and mission of the organization, and Matthew and I are friends. I don't think we can manage a phone call under 1 1/2 hours.

Tuesday, I'll be doing a live interview with Matthew as part of the June fundraising effort for TRP. Join us live with a gift to TRP, or listen later to the recorded session.

TRP and CenterPeace trade off years for the annual conference. I will be in Dallas in October for CenterPeace and hope to see you there.

The TRP Ambassador Retreat in August will be local to me- at Lake Tahoe. I'll be spending two days with this trained group of changemakers. (I'll bring my timeline and my kayaks!)

06/13/2026

This teaching for Sacto family and marriage therapist is open to the public.

06/12/2026

Kathy Baldock is a fantastic advocate for LGBTQ people in the church. If you don't know her from her long partnership with me and The Reformation Project, you may have seen her in the popular documentary film "1946" as she helped lead groundbreaking research into the history of how the word "homosexual" was added to a Bible translation for the first time in the mid-20th century.

Kathy has just released a long-awaited new book based on this research, called "Forging a Sacred Weapon: The 1946 Bible Mistranslation Behind Anti-Gay Theology." She'll be joining me for a live conversation about the book on Tuesday, June 16th at 1pm Central, and anyone who makes a gift (of any size) to The Reformation Project's June Appeal is invited to join: reformationproject.org/affirming-voices. And if you can't watch it live, we'll send you the recording afterward. I'd love to see you there!

A four-part webinar series featuring leading affirming voices. Available to all June Appeal supporters.

06/12/2026

I know most of you KNOW this, but, the SBC decision against women pastors and the anti-LGBTQ+ exclusionary practices of conservative denominations and churches is ALL THE SAME STUFF.
Each rooted in the beliefs solidly in place by 10K BC to enshrine patriarchy -- the superiority of men over women and men over males who "took the social-sexual roles of women" EVEN when those males had no agency to consent or pushback (they were enslaved, prostituted, lower class, captured, or foreigners among a dominant power).
It's all the same thing.
Can you imagine operating on assumptions birthed 12K years in any realm like health, science, economics, technology, social and cultural ethics and standards, military capabilities, agriculture, astronomy, any field. YET, this time-bound principles of the inferiority of women and those who "act like women" and the superiority of males are used to confine, restrict and bind women and LGBTQ+ people.
IT IS NONSENSE.

06/11/2026

The level of disrespect from "good Christian men" is disheartening.

(see the vote from the Southern Baptists concerning women as pastors)

Yesterday, I was called an "arrogant skank."

And this gent, has asked that I, seemingly just a rib, be silent.

LOTS of disrespect is coming and will come my way. But, I have VERY tight boundaries on behavior.

I click on the profiles of the scoffers and revilers (oh wait, doesn't 1 Cor. 6:9-10 say that revilers will not see the kingdom of heaven?) and wonder how they do not see the disconnect between their proclamations of faith and treatment of others.

Not a rib, not a skank. Just a 70 year old woman who takes my faith, relationships, and academics seriously.

06/11/2026

Thank you, Kelly Scott, for gifting my book to an appreciative reader.

I'm fully stocked on all three books again.

Buy direct, get a signed copy, and support my work more fully.

Audiobook available from my site -- it will be on Audible in the next few weeks.

https://canyonwalkerconnections.com/books/

06/11/2026

A dear friend sent me an anti-LGBTQ+ sermon/video that was played at his church.

I can BARELY stand it.

The sloppy theology, the juvenile level of thinking, the utter lack of understanding of historical context, the misuse of studies (and the "studies" are over fifty years old), the arrogance of "the Bible clearly says . . . ", and the certainty that his views are God's views.

My toleration of this tripe is growing thinner. Having done the academic work on the topic, it is SO SO SO clear when opponents have NOT done the work.

I am so sorry that this nonsense is spoken from pulpits as if God Himself is directing their words.

UPDATED: Many people who have never interacted with this page in over a decade now have much to say here and are clearly poorly educated on texts in CONTEXT and ORIGINAL INTENT.
You're feeling quite free to mock and call me names while showing zero interest in learning.
So, I'm going to hold you to your standard. According to 1 Cor. 6: 9-10, "revilers" do not inherit the kingdom of God. Well, dang, I want nothing to do with such folks. So, bye.
Post, and I will remove your comment and or block you.
This issue is not word game of slinging barbs back and forth to see who is more clever.
Read my book or don't. I am VERY confident that I have researched this topic far more than any person who has and will post here.
I am straight, my grown children are straight and I am doing as we are called to do—protecting and advocating for the marginalized. NO, LGBTQ+ people are NOT inherently sinners or rebellious against God.
Play nice, or play elsewhere.

06/09/2026

I am COMPLETELY caught up with shipping ALL books: Forging a Sacred Weapon, the Discussion Guide, and David's biography, I Wish to Express.
More Forging coming in tomorrow.
Order direct and signed. I get them out the same day- you have them three days later.
If you got a note in your first package that the other books were coming, they are on their way!
https://canyonwalkerconnections.com/books/

06/09/2026

"Forging a Sacred Weapon" IS GOOD.

READ it, and you will learn. There are many ways to begin productive conversations. Find facts in the book that resonate with you, and engage.

THANK YOU, Ellen Tanouye, for the kind words sent in a card.

06/09/2026

A LONG, but really good interview with You Can Be Both about Forging a Sacred Weapon, the process, and the findings.

PLEASE go to her FB and IG pages and support her, give her love, and notice all the REALLY nasty pushback that, unfortunately, has become emblematic of some strains in Christianity today.

Also, consider joining her community. They will be reading my book, and I will participate in some of the sessions.

For nearly 2,000 years, the word "homosexual" did not appear in the...