Volume 9, Issue 4
Transformation Cover Stories A New Diet for a New Year By Rev. Candace Chellew The diet I intend to try is a transformation diet — a diet that promises not so much to transform my body, but to transform my mind. I Can See Clearly
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I Can See Clearly Now
From time to time, when those people who do not know me inquire me about my faith or my religious beliefs, upon my telling them that I am a Christian, one of the usual questions that comes up is, “Are you ‘born again’?” Some of
A Cry in the Wilderness: Is Anyone Listening?
With the election of Bush to the Presidency on November 2nd, the gay community needs to take a long hard deep look at itself. The gay community lost across the board during the 2004 election with the exception of the repeal of the hated Cincinnati
An Open Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement
Your Advent letter to the Primates of the Anglican Communion is indeed accurate when it says that many homosexuals feel there is no good news for them in the Church. As an organisation devoted to bringing Christ to the homosexual community the Lesbian and Gay
Realizing the Presence
I arise today Through God’s strength to pilot me: God’s might to uphold me, God’s wisdom to guide me, God’s eye to look before me, God’s ear to hear me, God’s word to speak for me, God’s hand to guard me, God’s way to lie
Church Within a Church Movement Sets Course
News release CHICAGO — The progressive grassroots Church Within A Church Movement in the United Methodist Church, met October 14-16 in Chicago for its regular semi-annual Coordinating Team Meeting. The agenda included joining a larger meeting of multiple progressive United Methodist caucuses to learn more
Letters to the Editor
Editor: Thank You!!!! Thank you for creating this website!!! I am a lesbian who was raised Catholic and then Christian and now am condemned by my mother for being a lesbian. I have been “beaten over the head” constantly with the clobber passages and am
Marriage and the Patriarchy
Recently, the media has been awash in different perspectives of the issue of same sex marriage. This has been highlighted by independent decisions by cities in several states to grant marriage licenses to same sex couples, by the court action of the state of Massachusetts
Volume 9, Issue 2
Revealing Our Glory Cover Stories I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal By Rev. Candace Chellew We believe that our heart is bad, stained as black as coal. We don’t understand that beneath that pitch black lurks a diamond — a heart that is good.
I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal
I’m just an old chunk of coal, But I’m gonna be a diamond some day, I’m gonna grow and glow ’til I’m so blue pure perfect, I’m gonna put a smile on ev’rybody’s face. I’m gonna kneel and pray ev’ry day, Lest I should become