About me: A journey of faith and LGBTQIA+ advocacy

Photo of Kieran Bohan, Director of the Open Table Network by BBC Radio Merseyside, April 2023.

Welcome – my name is Kieran Bohan. I am a 50-something gay Christian sharing stories of faith, hope and love, to inspire and challenge. I am also:

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel . 1865. Alexander Louis Leloir

Why ‘A brave faith’?

When I began writing this blog I did so under a pseudonym – ‘Jack-With-No-Box’. I explained the origin of that name and of the the title of the blog in an early post hereI headed the blog in the early years with this image: Jacob and the Angel by Alexander Louis Leloir. It represented something of my experience of ‘wrestling for blessing’, which I first wrote about here.

I grew in confidence after our civil partnership made the news in 2012. Media requests for interviews followed the UK Government’s consultation on same-sex marriage in England and Wales in 2013.

So, as I began writing under my own name, I headed the blog with this photo of my husband and I on the threshold of the church at our civil partnership celebration. I wrote about the significance of this image for us here.

While I still write under my own name, I have reverted to the image of Jacob and the Angel to reflect the wrestling with ideas, identities and theologies about which I often write.

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  1. Hi Kieran, just checking in while checking out your blog, Greg

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