If you only get your news through the mainstream media, you probably believe that organized, mainstream religion has only one belief about homosexuality: It’s a sin … period. Often the most common faces you see representing Christianity are those of Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson.
News release COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The National Religious Leadership Roundtable wrapped up a two-day meeting here after more than 200 people attended a public forum Monday night that acknowledged the unique contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people. The Roundtable is an
Will Focus on Applying Soulforce to Primary Voices of Intolerance News release LOS ANGELES — Mel White has resigned as the volunteer Justice Minister for the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. “I’m almost sixty,” he said. “In another sixty years they’re going to bury
When Rembert Truluck gave up his temptation to be God, he found an abundance of blessings waiting for him. The biggest blessing was the gift of time. Time enough to finish a book that had been in the works since 1988, and time enough to
Sisters and brothers, you have decided that I was disobedient “to the Order and Discipline of the United Methodist Church.” I know many of you struggled with that because I know you. Now you must impose a penalty which you believe is appropriate and responds
As hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians are forced from their homes in Kosovo, Rev. Greg Dell sees a similar human tragedy playing itself out on a smaller scale within the United Methodist Church, as it prosecutes its clergy for openly violating a church rule
To set the scene, the position of the Lutheran Church here is that to be a homosexual is not a sin but the practicing of one’s homosexuality is. On the official front we have an equivalent of marriage for gays and lesbians called ‘partnership’ which
Rev. Jimmy Creech has been without a congregation for a year. On March 13, 1998, Creech was acquitted by a jury of 13 Methodist ministers on charges that he disobeyed the United Methodist Church by blessing the union of two lesbians in September of last
A Pastoral Message On The Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of UFMCC Dear Saints: This has been a powerful week in my personal life. On October 6th, we observed the 30th anniversary of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. I’ve replayed the events of
It’s been nearly 10 years since I first set foot inside a Metropolitan Community Church. I didn’t even know such a church, aimed at the spiritual well-being and safety of gays and lesbians, existed, until my partner at the time saw an article in a