About 20 years ago, not long before I left my first congregation, I did a baby naming for the new child of some dear friends. When I did that naming, there were a couple of things I didn’t know – the first was that the parents had just learned that their newborn had cancer, and faced an uncertain future. Thank God, the cancer was caught early, and they’re still with us. But, the other thing I didn’t know was that this person would, as a teenager, come out as non-binary, which meant that we gave them the wrong name. Thankfully, they were able to fix that, and we now all get to live in a world with the amazing Logan Petersiel.

Logan actually asked to be on Profanely Sacred, which made my heart do all sorts of fluttery things, because they loom so large in my memory, and in my imagination. I was incredibly excited to reconnect with this person who I haven’t seen in person since they were just a baby.

Logan has become an advocate for non-binary and transgender rights, and also an inspiration for other people who are battling cancer. And, as we’ll hear, both of those aspects of them play a significant role in who they’ve grown up to be. We’ll also hear a young person who is thoughtful and kind, but someone who somehow thinks a bird makes a better pet than a cat or a dog. Whatever. No one is perfect.