E. Scott Jones

Open: A Memoir of Faith, Family, & Sexuality in the Heartland

August 24, 2018August 24, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

Open is a story of coming out as a gay man while working as a Baptist youth minister in Texas. Open is a story about a typical Christian evangelical family in the American heartland that must grapple with the child who challenges their understanding of the world and disappoints their…

Dallas Book Signing

October 24, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

"How did we ever live in Dallas without cell phones and GPS?" I asked Brittany Wooten as we sat together with Wootens and Keiths at a long table in the Bavarian Grill in Plano. "I don't know," she answered. "We use GPS everywhere we go now." I had found (and…

Driving to Dallas on a Lovely Day

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

Saturday morning I was driving south from Oklahoma City headed toward Dallas for my next book event. With few clouds, you could see a brilliant light blue sky, an almost perfect and mild day. My first realization of the morning was that Oklahomans have a new relationship with speed. I…

Hometown, Part Two

October 20, 2018October 20, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

Driving along the Will Rogers Turnpike on our way from Tulsa to my hometown of Miami, my preschool son required a potty break, so we exited the toll road at Big Cabin. He didn't want to get back on the interstate, so I said we could take the scenic route,…

Hometown, Part One

October 19, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

On Thursday, October 18 I returned to my hometown of Miami, Oklahoma to sell and sign my book Open: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Sexuality in the Heartland. For the first time I was doing a public event in my hometown as an out gay man. I pulled up…

Three Articles Today

October 19, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

Three articles appeared today about my book Open: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Sexuality in the Heartland. Writing in Tulsa's Black Wall Street Times, Casey McLerran covered my Tuesday night reading and discussion at the Black Wall Street Gallery. She wrote, "Jones’ humor and poise; which has carried him and…

Black Wall Street Gallery

October 17, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

“I want this gallery and the artists we present to show people coming together, working together, to make something new, something better,” said Dr. Ricco Wright in a Tulsa World article about the recent opening of the Black Wall Street Gallery in Tulsa's Greenwood District. I was honored for them…

Meeting Glennon Doyle

October 12, 2018October 12, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

Today I got to meet Glennon Doyle. Last year when it was announced she was going to be a keynote speaker at the General Synod of the United Church of Christ, I frankly was "Who's that?" But her presentation at Synod blew me away with its vulnerability, its honesty, its…

National Coming Out Day

October 12, 2018October 12, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

Yesterday was National Coming Out Day. I came out to myself in 2003 and fully, publicly in 2005. My memoir is my coming out story. So, yesterday evening at our local progressive Christian bookstore, Urban Abbey, I did a National Coming Out Day book event. I read a portion of…

Oral History Interview

September 15, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

Back in February the Queer Omaha Archives Oral History Project housed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries' Archives and Special Collections interviewed me. The interview is available online here.

Book Release in the Press

September 9, 2018 by Scott Jones

Scott Jones

This last week the publication of Open: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Sexuality in the Heartland was covered in local media in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Gazette, for whom I once wrote, did a fabulous piece on the book, which you can read here. And the University of Oklahoma, one…

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