phaedrus65
09-09-2006, 06:28 PM
I am a 65-year-old retired high school teacher living in midcoast Maine. Be fore I moved back here to my hometown, I lived in Boston for 25 years, teaching history and political science at The Roxbury Latin School. I am a graduate of Bowdoin and of Union Theological Seminary. Among other volunteer projects, I coach the Bowdoin College Debating Team. I was also among the founders of "OUT...As I Want to Be!", a program for GLBTQ youth in midcoast Maine. I am currently president of the Lincoln Academy Alumni Association and alumni representative to the Academy's Board of Trustees. Last spring I had the privilege of telling the organizational meeting of Lincoln's GSA that I was president of their alumni association and a gay man--an important message for them to hear, I thought.
I spent many of my years in Boston as a foster parent, and my foster sons are still the center of my life, my real family. Three of them have joined me here in Maine, where our multiracial family is, to say the least, unusual. They range in age from 38 to 42, and have presented me with several grandchildren, a joy I had never hoped for.
I was attracted to the Soulforce website by the excellent article by Walter Wink, who was one of my teachers at Union. I am especially interested in theological perspectives on GLBTQ life and culture, and I hope to learn much from this site.
I spent many of my years in Boston as a foster parent, and my foster sons are still the center of my life, my real family. Three of them have joined me here in Maine, where our multiracial family is, to say the least, unusual. They range in age from 38 to 42, and have presented me with several grandchildren, a joy I had never hoped for.
I was attracted to the Soulforce website by the excellent article by Walter Wink, who was one of my teachers at Union. I am especially interested in theological perspectives on GLBTQ life and culture, and I hope to learn much from this site.