Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approves change in ordination standard
‘submission to the lordship of jesus christ’ replaces ‘fidelity and chastity’
Yeah, I have lots of thoughts about that :D

Elizabeth [surname redacted] from Cambridge Welcoming Ministries begins this month's discussion on queer identity and spirituality. As the term "queer" is reclaimed, and assumptions about sexuality and gender challenged, spiritual communities are also rethinking their theology, worship and prophetic witness around these issues.
This is a great blurb ( Read more... )

Thanks to a conversation with a friend, I now want a website with the official polity, judicial precedent, etc. of all denominations on full inclusion of GLBT persons (ordination, membership, etc.).

Email from Tiffany:Elizabeth ( Read more... )

Serendipitously, this morning's daily lectionary readings were: Isaiah 61:1-7 and Romans 7:1-6I saw FCS-Ian last night 'cause there was Council after Rest and Bread.  The copier's still broken, and he asked me if I still had the lectionary sheet* and I said yeah, not with me but at home, that I was planning to bring it to church and that I could ( Read more... )

A friend of mine emailed me this afternoon:How do you feel about asexuals joining the bisexual community ( Read more... )

I got an email a few minutes ago with the link [PDF] to the draft report in preparation for Saturday's "Deep Listening and Honest Sharing on Social Principles Statement on Human Sexuality," and was I was reading the first statement, I realized that it said things like "members of our community who happen to be homosexual" and I had barely even ( Read more... )

I'm reading When the Drama Club is not Enough: Lessons from the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students while the dryer goes.

From the Introduction:[...] January 1989, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide.  The report stated that 30 percent of youth ( Read more... )

I am not so much interested in critiquing artaxastra's specific postBut I do think that getting to know the Other is really important.  I think a lot of people are scared of the people on the other side because they don't understand them.  And I think this is true of/on both sides.  I think it's harder to demonize people when you actually know them ( Read more... )

I was sightseeing in a non-English-speaking country (and staying in hostels, rather than say hotels which would have had tvs in the bedrooms), so I was even less up on Olympics stuff than I would have been otherwise (I don't expect I would have watched much of the Games, but I would have at least read the metro on the way to work and seen the tvs ( Read more... )