“Dad knew this was the one thing he could do that would hurt me the most. He thinks this pain will somehow bring us closer together, but he’s taken away the thing I feel makes us a team. How can… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“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,… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“Aaron, I love you so much, and I know how much this means to you. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“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
