All posts by Candace Chellew

St. Francis of Assisi

It’s in Giving That We Receive

It’s in giving that we receive. (Prayer of St. Francis, 13th century saint) When you give, You begin to live, You get the world. (“You Might Die Trying,” Dave Matthews Band, 21st century musical group) I have what some people might call “issues” around money.

Glasses resting on Bible

It’s Just Not Fair!

Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings for the First Sunday of Advent: O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence — as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to

Hand reaching toward sunlight

Behold the Butt of God

Readings: Exodus 33:12-23, Matthew 22:15-22 I used to think my dad was God. He was a Southern Baptist preacher and each Sunday I’d see him ascend onto the stage and take his place behind the pulpit. There he was – placed high above those of

Woman solving word puzzles

Sermon Mad Libs

MCC Columbia, S.C. Readings: Luke 15:11-24, Romans 8:5-11 Back in 1953, Leonard Stern, one of the writers for the TV show “The Honeymooners,” was working on writing a new character into the series. He was stuck for a descriptive passage and yelled out to his co-writer Roger

Glasses resting on Bible

Learning To Love the Questions

Religion, for me, has more to do with living in the uncertainties, with loving questions, than with answering them. In the end, the hole in the soul is not filled by answers. It is healed only by deeper questions. (Alan Jones, Reimagining Christianity) “If you

People at concert

The HRC Finds Religion… Finally!

All I can say is, “it’s about time!” When I started Whosoever about 10 years ago I did so believing that unless the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community embraced the spiritual elements present in the community it would never, ever win any significant political