As I Am is the only magazine in the country dedicated to empowering members of the LGBT community by affirming their inborn divinity and equality, and inspiring them to reclaim their relationship with a spiritual community. Each issue contains profiles of LGBT activists who have overcome challenges to reclaim their spiritual power; poignant features about people making a difference; columns by religious community leaders; columns on pets, travel, health and news; film, book and music recommendations; a listing of member businesses and spiritual organizations that embrace the LGBT community; and more.

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Message to Readers - Summer 2008

Dear Reader, It seems my life now comes in slices. I am in Memphis for my cousin’s wedding: slice one. While ...

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Silent and Undecided Friends by Steve Clapp and Holly Sprunger -- Editor’s note: In this issue, we introduce Christian Community, a nonprofit research ...

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‘I will never live in fear again’ by Robin C. Tuthill -- For the first 45 years of her life, Phyllis Goodson ...

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Race, Religion and Obama's Pastor by Reverend Irene Monroe -- Religion plays too important of a role in today’s theater of American ...

Books

Theory of Orange
The First Man-Made Man

Theory of Orange
By Rachel M. Simon
Pavement Saw Press, 2007
Theory of Orange is the debut collection of lesbian poet and college teacher Rachel Simon, and winner of the prestigious Pavement Saw Transcontinental Award for 2005-2006. Ohio-based Pavement Saw Press is a non-profit organization that has published seven books of poetry each year since 1999. Its mission […]

Film

For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)

Run, don’t walk, to your neighborhood video/DVD rental store and rent or buy a copy of For the Bible Tells Me So. It’s an enlightening, heartfelt, myth-busting look at how the Bible has been shamelessly wielded to denigrate, disgrace and ostracize gays. You will see, through the eyes of a heartbroken mother, how different the […]

Music

Carrie Newcomer & Cris Williamson

The Geography of Light (Rounder Records 2008)
Carrie Newcomer 
Spiritual-Folk
This is Indiana singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer’s 11th album and her soulful lyrics are again inspired by the natural world, people and literature. She writes of finding God in unexpected places and finding the sacred in the profane; no doubt influenced by her spiritual beliefs. Newcomer is a Quaker […]

Wellness

Are you ‘very’ happy, ‘pretty’ happy, or ‘not too’ happy?

That is the question that has been asked since 1972 in one of the most thorough examinations of happiness ever done in the U.S. The newest research indicates that in general people grow happier as they grow older. That may be because of increasing job satisfaction, more settled personal lives, and a decrease in youth-related […]

In the pages of ...

Woman’s election bolsters change in American-Muslim world

When elected last year, Professor Ingrid Mattson became the first female/first convert/first North American-born head of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a 20,000-member society—the largest Muslim group on the continent—that wields significant political and social influence. Born into a Catholic family in Ontario, Mattson stopped practicing Catholicism as a teenager, studied philosophy and […]

Paws

No Pets at Pridefest!

by Cynthia McCollum –
No, I’m not a nasty dog hater. That was just to get your attention. This is really about your pet’s comfort and safety. Pride is all about celebrating who we are. Lots of us consider “pet lover” a big part of who we are and like to have our furry friends with […]