Category Archives: The Church

Dove flying in Lisbon, Portugal

Are We Being True to Our Faiths?

Every four years the United Methodist Church (UMC) has a general conference where church rules and future plans are established. The UMC has generally been regarded as a more liberal denomination but, at the 2000 conference, it took a strongly conservative stand against homosexuals. Since

St. Peter's by the Sea Episcopal Church in Cape Neddick, Maine. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

Déjà Vu All Over Again

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” First Corinthians 13: 12 (KJV) Bishop V. Gene Robinson was consecrated as “the first openly gay