About ReconcilingStories.org

ReconcilingStories.org invites gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender United Methodists and their friends and family to submit stories about their faith journeys and their fights for equality and justice.

We’ll review your stories and get them up on the site so others can share in your joys, empathize with your struggles, gain insight from your lessons learned, and encourage you to press on.

We offer the entire scale of visibility, from secure, anonymous posting all the way to a picture and contact information with your post. We now support the uploading of audio so that you can tell your story as well. Sharing should be easy, and we hope you find our process absolutely painless.

What is ReconcilingStories.org’s goal? We are working for a United Methodist Church that is fully inclusive of all our GLBT brothers and sisters. Changing hearts and minds in the church will happen, and it will take place one person, one story, one connection at a time. We offer up this space for those connections.


Contact info

Questions? Comments? You can email us at team@reconcilingstories.org.


Submission guidelines

By submitting a story to ReconcilingStories.org, you authorize ReconcilingStories.org and its administrators to use your story, without compensation, on the ReconcilingStories.org website and in any ReconcilingStories.org publication or written materials. You understand that ReconcilingStories.org will use your submitted text only for informational purposes in ReconcilingStories.org publications and on the ReconcilingStories.org website. You thereby agree to hold ReconcilingStories.org, its licensees, and its affiliates harmless from any liability resulting from your statements and actions depicted or described in the information, text, audio, and graphic representations therein submitted.

Stories submitted to ReconcilingStories.org should generally relate to GLBT persons and the United Methodist Church. If you have stories to share outside of this category, we encourage you to visit our links page for other sites that may be willing to host your story. 

ReconcilingStories.org does not allow offensive or lewd content of any kind. Each post is reviewed by an administrator, and we reserve the right to edit posts if necessary. Please allow up to 24 hours for your submission to be posted. If you have any questions please contact us.


This site is copyrighted © ReconcilingStories.org.

All content on this website (including text, photographs, audio files, and any other original works), unless otherwise noticed, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. In other words, you may share any material found on this site as long as: (1) you credit ReconcilingStories.org; (2) it is used for noncommercial purposes; and (3) you republish this material (or any manipulation thereof) under an identical Creative Commons license.


Site credits

ReconcilingStories.org was designed by Four Kitchen Studios and is powered by Wordpress. Its design was adapted from Binary Bonsai’s Kubrick theme. Some of the icons were created by graphicPUSH.