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
I promise to love and care for you, Through times of joy and times of sorrow, To rejoice when you are happy, And grieve when you suffer, To share your interests, And hopes for the future, To try to understand you, Even when I do
If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here. For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your
“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
Soulforce News release WASHINGTON — The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in November approved a document condemning loving relationships between people of the same gender, and defining marriage as “between a man and a woman.” The document, entitled Between Man and Woman: Questions
News release The primates of the Anglican Communion emerged October 16 from a closed two-day meeting at London’s Lambeth Palace, headquarters of the archbishop of Canterbury, with a strong statement on what they perceive as threats to unity. The special meeting was called by Archbishop
News release CHICAGO — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) mailed about 18,000 copies of “Journey Together Faithfully, Part Two: The Church and Homosexuality” on Sept. 5 to the pastors and lay leaders of the church. A task force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality
Unless you have been living under a rock on Fire Island waiting for spring to arrive, you like the rest of us have been reading and watching the unfolding scandal within the Roman Catholic Church regarding pedophilia and its Priests. It is indeed a terrible
“God is love! God is love! God is love!” I found myself chanting these lines over and over again at the recent Witness Our Welcome conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But, I was not enraptured by these words during a worship service at the ecumenical conference
As if I wasn’t giddy enough from all the emotional events of this year, last weekend I journeyed to Philadelphia for the WOW 2003 conference! WOW! Witness Our Welcome. Over 1,000 LGBTQ people and our straight allies were there, including some of the most amazing