Gayle Tabor

Testosterone, military,  Gender Affirming  – oh my!

2026/10/01 Gayle 0

A friend posted something on Facebook this morning that sent me down a rabbit hole. They began by admitting that a lot of the conversations around gender can get complicated pretty quickly. Fair enough. But then they asked a wonderfully simple question: If the military tests a man, decides his testosterone is too low, and gives him testosterone so that his body more closely conforms to what we expect of a male body, isn’t that gender-affirming care? Well, that’s an interesting question. Because the Pentagon is moving forward with testosterone-deficiency screening for many male service members. And medically speaking, diagnosing and treating an actual hormone deficiency isn’t some bizarre new idea. There can be perfectly legitimate medical reasons to test testosterone and, when appropriate, treat The rest of the story

There’s always next year.

2026/10/01 Gayle 0

“There’s always next year.” For most baseball fans, that’s a consolation. For a Chicago Cubs fan, it’s practically part of the liturgy. For more than a century, generations of Cubs fans said those words at the end of another season: wait until next year. Keep believing. Come back in the spring. Then 2016 happened. For one glorious season, next year became this year. And those of us who waited our whole lives for it will never forget what that felt like. Which, unfortunately, did not permanently exempt us from Cubs heartbreak. So here we are again. I really believed in this 2026 team. I yelled at them. I questioned their life choices. I stayed up ridiculously late on the East Coast. And now our season The rest of the story

Consent at any Age

2026/09/30 Gayle 0

Over the weekend, I packed up the LEGO bricks from Lego Club Carolina Beach. 😭😭😭 It was a ministry I absolutely loved and did for more than 11 years. Packing up all those bricks, and all those memories, was extremely bittersweet. As Jenn and I were packing, I noticed the LEGO Club rules were still written on the chalkboard, even though we haven’t met in that room since the spring of 2025. One particularly caugh my attention given recent events: Ask permission before taking a LEGO from someone else. And if they say no, accept the no. And suddenly, that rule felt much bigger than LEGOs. We were teaching consent! Those kids learned that they were allowed to say no. Even when the person asking The rest of the story

Feast of Mary Magdalene

2026/07/22 Gayle 0

Every July 22, the Church remembers Mary Magdalene. In 2016, Pope Francis did something remarkable. He elevated her liturgical memorial to a Feast—the same rank given to the male apostles—and formally recognized what the Church had known from its earliest centuries: Mary Magdalene is apostola apostolorum—the Apostle to the Apostles. That wasn’t creating something new. It was recovering something ancient. Mary Magdalene appears in all four Gospels. That alone should make us pause. She is present at the cross when many others have fled. She watches where Jesus is buried. She returns before dawn to the tomb. And in John’s Gospel, she becomes the first person to encounter the risen Christ. Jesus entrusts her with the first Easter sermon: “Go to my brothers and say The rest of the story

2026/06/20 Gayle 0

I’ve had a couple of discussions lately about what we call God. So this morning, I decided to put pen to paper, more accurately fingers to keyboard,  and offer some thoughts on why I Avoid Masculine Pronouns for God and Rarely Call God “Father” I’m deeply rooted in the Christian tradition. I fully  recognize that Scripture contains many references to God as Father. Yet I intentionally avoid using masculine pronouns for God and rarely address God as “Father.” This choice is not a rejection of Christianity, nor is it an attempt to erase biblical language. Rather, it arises from a conviction that God transcends human gender and that no single image or metaphor should be mistaken for the fullness of the divine mystery. I grew The rest of the story

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