WORLD By Rosaria Butterfield May 18, 2024 MY CHRISTIAN NEIGHBOR KNOCKED on my door and asked if we could talk. I smiled, but he looked ­uncharacteristically burdened. My just-waking toddler snuggled on my hip. Her hair smelled of apple juice and yogurt.   “I have been praying for a woman who is—or was—a lesbian professor from Syracuse University. Her name was on a…