Comments on: Casey Pick: “A Broken Family” https://comingoutcovenant.com/casey-pick-a-broken-family/ Members and friends of the Evangelical Covenant Church in favor of a more inclusive church! Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:19:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Liz VerHage https://comingoutcovenant.com/casey-pick-a-broken-family/#comment-420 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:41:00 +0000 http://comingoutcovenant.com/?p=442#comment-420 Thank you for this story and for sharing your heart. This reflection is fabulously well-written, thoughtful and gracious – it also points to much pain and patience in your life. I pray that the family of the church will steward your story and the friendship you’ve written about here well – we would all be stronger for it. 

]]> By: Leah Klug https://comingoutcovenant.com/casey-pick-a-broken-family/#comment-419 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:47:00 +0000 http://comingoutcovenant.com/?p=442#comment-419 Casey, thank you for your bravery, and for sharing your remarkable journey. May you be blessed in your faith, and may the church we love grow into a place where all are truly welcome.

]]> By: Lorian Franklin Dunlop https://comingoutcovenant.com/casey-pick-a-broken-family/#comment-418 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:29:00 +0000 http://comingoutcovenant.com/?p=442#comment-418 Casey, it’s wonderful to hear your counterpoint to Amy’s story.  I understand your pain and conflict.  And I understand how the rejection and hurt leads to self-abuse, having been there, too.  You are so right that we must speak up in love and be who we are in all aspects of our lives.  If we cannot, as children of God, be ourselves and know that we are loved in church of all places, then church becomes a place that is not, in reality, God’s house.

Thanks for this lovely piece.  Blessings to you.

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