Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings for Transfiguration Sunday (Last Sunday before Lent): 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2, Luke 9:28-43 When I was growing up in the Southern Baptist church, there were two words that I had never thought to put together – “church” and “calendar.”
Read the rest of the series Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church Phoenix, Ariz. Every morning after that, the mice and the little people dressed in their running gear and headed over to Cheese Station C. It wasn’t long before Hem and Haw regarded the Cheese
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings: 2 Samuel 11:2-5, Matthew 15:21-28, 1 Corinthians 13:9-13 I had been in seminary only a little while when my then-partner asked me a stumper of a question. “Don’t you think that’s a contradiction?” she asked me one day.
Read the rest of the series Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church, Phoenix, Ariz. As different as the mice and little people were, they shared something in common: Every morning, they each put on their jogging suits and running shoes, left their little homes, and raced
Metropolitan Community Church of Columbia, S.C. Readings for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost: Hebrews 7:23-28, Mark 10:46-52 Forgive the stereotype, dear friends, but let me begin today with a story about a little old lady. Age had robbed her of much of her sight, so
Read the rest of the series Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church, Phoenix, Ariz. Written and Delivered by John Williams, Senior Deacon. Once, long ago in a land far away, there lived four little characters who ran through a maze looking for cheese to nourish them
Read the rest of the series Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church, Phoenix, Ariz. They all laughed as they realized that although they had gone off in different directions ‚ from working at home to managing companies‚ they were experiencing similar feelings. Everyone was trying to
Read the rest of the series Gentle Shepherd Metropolitan Community Church, Phoenix, Ariz. Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again
I bet you didn’t know that the Book of Acts is all about living as a gay Christian. Okay, so that’s not really what it’s about — it’s actually a chronicle of the early church and of the movement of the gospel out of Israel
Born in the city of Bath as Kenneth Anthony Goodenough (in Somerset England) on the 5th of January 1949, I was raised in a Christian/Salvation Army family. In fact, I believe that my deep-down Christian faith stems from the moment that my mother arranged to