Originally posted by charlenaandrews at Being a follower of Jesus Christ-revisited
Originally posted by charlenaandrews at Being a follower of Jesus Christ-revisited

Being a follower of Jesus Christ-revisited
I March 2013
As the title implies this entry has to do with my own spiritual walk but also what I believe the Bible tells us in the 4 Gospels. If you aren't drawn to such a ( Read more... )

A Season of Transition and Reflections
17 December 2012
Well here we are at the end of another calendar year, a few weeks into the new church year and definitely a in the midst of a season of change. My life is continuing in the desired direction and I am starting to see the results of persaonal choices over the few last years. Earlier in the year on ( Read more... )

A demonstration against the Tribeca Film Festival's choice to feature the movie "Ticked Off Trannies With Knives" will take place in NYC tonight. The movie promotes transphobia and makes light of the rape and violence all too often directed at transwomen. In addition to the offensive title of the movie, the film portrays transwomen as being ( Read more... )

A petition to remove cross-dressing as a mental disorder is being submitted to the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Workgroup of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Currently the APA considers individuals who crossdress to be suffering from "transvestic disorder" http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2010/03/remove-crossdressing-from-dsm-v. ( Read more... )

When I was growing up and the family went on vacation it always seemed that I was asking "How much further is it?". And the answer was always "Just a little further." The lesson being that a goal is always a little further away or harder to achieve than you think it would or should be. This was brought to mind today as I listened to Rev. Carol give ( Read more... )

New transgender education resource for churches from the Institute for Welcoming Resources

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
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Openly Transgender Minister Ordained in SF Lutheran Church

http://blogout.justout.com/?p=5352
and
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=3612

Has anyone ever been to Soulfest?

I have been to some of the concerts, and am thinking of getting a campsite this year.

Through the years the Transgender population at Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Saint Louis has been rather small. Part of that is I suspect due to the bad rap that Transgendered folks get from many religious denominations and partly due to a lack of outreach to the Transgender community. As a part of our TDOR service for 2008 we made a ( Read more... )

Its been an interesting week preparing for the TDOR services that will be held at Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis on this coming Sunday Nov. 16. Some people have questioned why we don't hold the service on November 20 which is the actual date - for us to get the largest turnout holding the service concurrent with our regular ( Read more... )