Lawrence R. Holben is an Episcopal clergyman serving
a small rural congregation in Mount Shasta, California,
where he lives with his partner, Kenneth Solus. He was a
member of All Saints' Parish, San Francisco, from 1995-2004
and continued serving as the parish historiographer until
2010. A former screenwriter ("The Hiding Place," World
Wide Pictures, 1975), his previously published books are
All the Way to Heaven: A Theological Reflection on Dorothy
Day, Peter Maurin and the Catholic Worker (Rose Hill Books,
1997) and What Christians Think about Homosexuality: Six
Representative Viewpoints (BIBAL Press, 1999), a text widely
used in college and seminary Christian ethics courses.