LGBTQ Affirmation

October 2023

October 12, 2023
All are invited, and not all are welcome. To be welcome at the table, you...

July 2023

July 25, 2023
Ironically, kingdom imagery was intended to help the church replace any earthly “king,” and make...

April 2023

April 13, 2023
This week’s reading is also a good reminder to choose that which is life giving...

January 2023

January 20, 2023
Healing justice can still liberate today as it did in some of our most sacred,...

October 2022

October 21, 2022
Are we building systems that give life to those who marginalized and vulnerable or are...
October 19, 2022
Though religiously observant in their own eyes, they were still politically complicit in the concrete...

September 2022

September 01, 2022
Our reading this week encourages us to recognize ahead of time that we may face...

August 2022

August 31, 2022
There is another way to interpret this week’s passage: to prioritize working for a safe,...
August 30, 2022
If your religion causes you to feel like you must reject your lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

July 2022

July 14, 2022
Adults a generation from now will value those different from them according to the way...
July 13, 2022
This is a strong message and should be weighed carefully by all Christian communities and...
July 12, 2022
Mary chooses to transgress patriarchal, gender binary, gender role assumptions. The story also lauds her...

May 2022

May 12, 2022
When we start to really consider what love means, then if we are honest we...

March 2022

March 24, 2022
As we are working toward a more inclusive, safe, compassionate, just society for everyone, if...
March 23, 2022
"Sinner" was the pejorative label that those at the center of Jesus society used to...
March 22, 2022
This week’s story is not answering questions about who gets to heaven or not. The...

September 2021

September 02, 2021
We can choose in these moments, not to get defensive, but to apologize when our...
September 01, 2021
The story illustrates what we would call intersectionality today. Intersectionality is a way of describing...

August 2021

August 31, 2021
This story offers a lot to us in the context of our own blinkered ways...
August 26, 2021
I’m not saying that we can retrospectively make Jesus a critical race theorist because he...
August 25, 2021
These characters are used not to pit Christians against Jews, but to help us understand...
August 24, 2021
Throughout history Christians have used the label of Pharisee as a disparaging or derogatory title...

June 2021

June 24, 2021
In the end, both parties receive what they need. But to arrive there, Jesus chose...
June 17, 2021
We don’t need a peace that is only a passive lull in our struggle for...
June 11, 2021
I have a hunch that some translators may be trying to avoid the misogyny in...
June 10, 2021
Similarly, the call to affirm, embrace, and include LGBTQ Christians in the church is not...
June 09, 2021
This week’s reading is asking us to check our assumptions about what we have classified...
June 04, 2021
Today our strong man could be capitalism, White supremacy, Christian nationalism, cisheterosexism, and more. All...
June 03, 2021
These are not just stories of mythical demons and exorcisms. That shallow understanding misses the...

May 2021

May 13, 2021
If we find ourselves opposed by the marginalized because we are actually standing between them...
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