I recently finished Brenna Blain’s Can I Say That?, a remarkable exploration of same-sex attraction, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, suicidal ideation, and all the painfully raw questions “good Christians” never ask out loud but almost always feel in the quiet depths of their heart. After finishing it, I told Brenna that it brought me to tears more times than I wish to admit. It’s a lovely book because, in it, Brenna gives readers the gift of herself as she really is. Not a pol...
