brookelm

For a fully affirming perspective, I'd encourage you to check out this podcast episode by my former pastor. (If listening to podcasts isn't your thing, you can find written stuff all over the internet if you search for "affirming theology" or "open and affirming congregations." It's not as rare as it used to be. I just love Sam's podcast though.)

I'm so sorry for all you have had to experience at the hands of the Church. There are a growing number of Christians who are figuring out that love is love is love, and I hope you find some soon.

Hey, if you're at UT Austin as your comment history suggests, I used to live there and can recommend a number of very progressive, egalitarian, LGBTQ+ affirming churches committed to social and racial justice, along with nonviolence. I too was raised a conservative (fundamentalist) Christian in the Bible Belt, and walked away from the Church in my twenties. I only came back when I discovered that the version of faith I grew up with was not the only version possible.

Ya think??

What was your transition to cochlear implants like? When you had them activated, did you experience sound in the same way as you did before you lost your remaining 25% hearing?

OP answered your second question here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/74z612/hearing_impaired_since_4_deaf_since_16_pianist/do2asak?context=1