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
News release While liturgies blessing same-sex unions are celebrated in some parts of the Episcopal Church, the church is not ready to authorize creating common liturgies for such services, General Convention has decided. In a vote by orders, with 58 lay deputations and 62 clergy
Listen to the podcast interview with Bishop Robinson News release A long and difficult journey, for both the church and the bishop-elect of New Hampshire, ended Tuesday evening when the House of Bishops voted to confirm the Rev. Canon Gene Robinson’s election as the next
Listen to the podcast interview with Bishop Robinson News release With 110 dioceses in the Episcopal Church, it seems someone is always electing a new bishop. But the attention of the Anglican world is now focused on one — the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the
News release Reaction to the June 7 election of the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest who is living in a committed relationship, as the ninth bishop of New Hampshire has ranged from joy to outrage. Yet all parties have one thing in
News release On June 17, 2003, while Soulforce was holding a vigil in the Phoenix heat outside the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, the convention’s Task Force on Ministry to Homosexuals released their report. The task force was formed in response to a motion at
Co-authored with Stephen Swecker, editor of Zion’s Herald Northwestern, one of America’s great universities, was begun by the Methodist Church in 1850 outside Chicago in a church parsonage. The school had outstanding football teams in the early years of the 20th century and came to
Bishop Tuell delivered this speech on the occasion of Claremont (Calif.) United Methodist Church’s celebration of its 10th anniversary of becoming a Reconciling Congregation. If I were to give a one sentence answer to the question it would be: “I changed my mind when I
Rev. Stephen Van Kuiken, minister of Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church (USA), was found guilty April 21 of violating the PCUSA Constitution, which requires ministers to discriminate against gays and lesbians in marriage. He will be rebuked for his actions. The Permanent Judicial Council of the
News release The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) transmitted a progress report on the church’s studies on sexuality to the 2003 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. The Church Council is the ELCA’s board of directors and serves as the legislative authority of