Posts by Believe Out Loud
General Assembly: The Story With In The Story
By More Light Presbyterians As the dust settles, the headlines don’t capture “the story” within the story of the 220th General Assembly. We had a strong GA Team of two dozen people working on the ground in Pittsburgh; a legislative team working on marriage, ordination and the Confessions; offering four major events; the MLP Booth…
Read MoreHalfway There
UPDATE: D002 and D019 have now passed the House of Deputies and are acts of Convention Sunday was an historic day, as the House of Bishops voted in favor of all three of the resolutions that take up gender identity and expression. As Sunday’s blog post left off, we were on the edge of our…
Read MorePresbyterian Church (USA) Discusses Marriage; Misses Historic Opportunity
By More Light Presbyterians, 220th General Assembly Pittsburgh, PA – The 220th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) discussed two different ways to expand the 2 million member denomination’s understanding of marriage to include committed same-sex couples. While neither option ultimately collected the majority of votes needed to begin the ratification process, this discussion…
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Read MoreWe Have Faith: LGBT Clergy and People of Faith Speak Out
By Peggy Gillespie, Co-Founder, Family Diversity Projects We Have Faith: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clergy and People of Faith Speak Out, a museum quality traveling exhibit, is in previews starting during PRIDE and is already booking up in churches, synagogues, schools, universities, and libraries beyond the fall premier venues in New York, Atlanta, Minneapolis,…
Read MoreLutheran Presiding Bishop Keynotes Pro-LGBT Faith Group
Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson of the Evangelical Church in America (ELCA) will provide an historic keynote on July 7, to the ReconcilingWorks biennial gathering running from July 6-10 in Washington, D.C. Formerly known as Lutherans Concerned/North America, ReconcilingWorks launched its new organization name, ReconcilingWorks: Lutherans for Full Participation, on June 12th, to better reflect…
Read MoreChosen and Precious
Rev. Shari Brink offers her reflections on her recent participation at the Reformed Church in America’s General Synod
Read MoreNational Gathering Celebrates 40 Years Of LGBT Advocacy In The UCC
The UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns celebrated the 40th anniversary of LGBT ministry and advocacy in the United Church of Christ and welcomed Open and Affirming (ONA) congregation #1,000–Pillar of Love Fellowship in Chicago. Administered by the Coalition, ONA is the largest and fastest-growing LGBT-welcoming-church movement in the world. “We’ve renewed the Coalition’s commitment…
Read MoreIncluder (CARTOON)
David offers commentary on LGBT-inclusive Christianity in, "Includer."
Read MoreNW Methodists Endorse Same-Sex Marriage
The United Methodist Church in the Northwest, at odds with its parent denomination, has endorsed Referendum 74 and called on voters to make Washington the nation’s seventh state to enact same-sex marriage. The church’s Pacific Northwest Annual Conference passed a resolution worded to “encourage all people to approve Referendum 74 so that the Marriage…
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