First Fruits: The Giving of the Harvest Cover Stories It’s in Giving That We Receive By Rev. Candace Chellew I love St. Francis and his famous prayer. I want to believe that it is indeed in the giving that we receive. I want to believe
Over the millennia of human faith history, God has been patiently training us and leading us along the path of ever-greater growth. All too often, religious people seem to believe we need to flatter and bribe God, thereby “bringing ‘Him’ around” to being good to
As I write this, I find that once again, the Holiday season is nearly over, and the annual “Christmas Chaos” is all over for yet another year. Don’t misunderstand me; I am not referring to the real reason for the Christmas Season, the celebration of
Dotti Berry and Roby Sapp were just being themselves. That’s how the trouble started. In 2004, they bought a new house in a Blaine, Washington neighborhood and were planning their wedding. They were legally married in Portland, Oregon on March 7, 2004, a union that
The Vatican has released a document banning priests “who are actively homosexual, have deep-seated homosexual tendencies, or support the so-called ‘gay culture.’” Rome has been floating trial balloons for some time about this document to see what level of anti-gay rhetoric it can get away
Not only do many Americans have bad taste, but they seem to love nothing better than celebrating it. Here in the Homeland of Security, we have never been renowned for our refined sensibilities. Though the vaudeville circuit of the early Twentieth Century honed the talents
Although I have been “out” for just over eight years, I truly feel that Whosoever is helping me to complete my coming-out process. How is it doing this? By helping me to find community (cyber-community, at any rate) with other GLBT people whose hearts and
About 6 years ago, I wrote an article still published on Whosoever titled Christians and Disputable Matters with the by-line of William Stephenson. I write this article as Virginia Stephenson, having transitioned to female in 2001. My journey in gender crossing has truly been a
First Reading: Psalm 94 Gospel Reading: Luke 4:18-19 Inclusive Love: Its time has come Given the increasingly strident professing Christian voices condemning same-sex relationships, and LGBT people in general, it is certainly timely and appropriate to honor those who are sinfully demonized and, in one
As the coauthor of a book on homosexuality and the Bible, I’m often asked to speak to groups. Usually, I try to get them to let me talk about the affirming passages — the centurion and his slave, the Ethiopian eunuch, Hathach the messenger —