“Aaron, I love you so much, and I know how much this means to you. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth and suffered and bled and died for your sin of lying. He knew while he was… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share
“I’m not saying Jesus won’t come back; I’ve just decided I can’t keep hoping to be rescued from my life. Maybe it’s up to… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“Will God allow me to be killed in a freak accident if I keep lying to my parents about music and movies?” — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“Dad knew this was the one thing he could do that would hurt me the most. He thinks this pain will somehow bring us… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“Eventually, I realized that social justice, kindness, and honesty didn’t have to come from the theology in which I’d been raised. In fact, not… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“The college allows students of different races to date now, but the place is permeated with an air of cheerful fascism.” — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“In a flash, the version of myself so carefully constructed for Mom’s and Dad’s eyes crumbles all around me. I have let them see… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“The air between Jason and me feels electric. I am sitting on a log at a campfire in the middle of the woods, next… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“We try to hold on to the things we think will keep us safe and maintain that place we can point to an say, This is normal. Adele and her stockpile of provisions, Connie Bonine and her storefront of all that Willie left behind, Mom and her gallery wall, Dad and his antique flip-screen camera, the coral on my nightstand:… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share
“Aaron, I love you so much, and I know how much this means to you. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth and suffered and bled and died for your sin of lying. He knew while he was hanging on that cross that one day Aaron Hartzler would lie to his dad about buying a CD for his… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share
“I might’ve been able to fool other people into thinking I believed, but the God I was raised with knew my every thought, so… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“A pervasive misconception about sexual orientation doggedly clings to the conversation about being LGBT in our current culture: that one’s sexual orientation is defined… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“I feel like I belong, sitting here next to Papa. This is what men do together—watch wrestling and make things from string.” — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
