Now that I have your attention…
A rabbi gathered his students around him one day and asks, “How do you know when the night is almost past and day is about to break?”
“Rabbi, is it when you see a tree in the far distance and you can tell that it’s a tree?” ventured a young student.
“No,” [...]

Posted in Christian Unity, Equality, Love and Grace 6 Comments »

As GLBTQ Christians we know what it is to be at the receiving end of rejection, hate, and prejudice. We’ve be vilified and stereotyped. We’ve been the brunt of jokes. We’ve had to repeatedly defend the quality of our love, the validity of our relationships and the integrity of our character. Our commitment to Christ [...]

Posted in Christian Living and Faith, Christian Unity, Love and Grace 12 Comments »

I’ve made an interesting observation. Interesting to me at least.
There are a number of congregations that cling to the word grace when chartering a name for their church. Grace Fellowship. Grace Community Church. Free Grace Church. Every Sunday when guests arrive through the front doors they’re handed the morning’s worship bulletin that tells them they’re [...]

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A childhood friend posted this photo on her Facebook page. That’s me on the right in my preschool Sunday School class. I was four years old and looking rather snappy, if I do say so myself and I will, in my fluffy white cotton knit sweater and skirt and shiny black patent leather Mary Janes.
I [...]

Posted in Love and Grace, SnapShot Reflections 9 Comments »

Today while visiting the home of a congregational member I  noticed on entering her living room that she had the same drawing of Jesus that D and I have over our fireplace mantle. Above her copy was a red wood board and painted in white letters it read “Jesus loves me, this I know.”
At least [...]

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I know this is just about everywhere on the internet but for the one of you who may not have heard this coming Saturday, November 15, at 10:30 a.m. (PST) will be the mega-awesome Join the Impact event. Gays and lesbians along with just about every justice-loving soul who walks or rolls will be gathering [...]

Posted in Love and Grace, News and Events 6 Comments »

Remember when I said I was done blogging about Prop 8?
I take it back.
Sorry.
In the two weeks prior to the election I participated in four visibility actions on various street corners near our home. On election day I stood 120 feet from a polling place located inside a church next door to our home for [...]

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Breathe in.
Exhale.
Breathe in.
Exhale.
There’s so much more I could say about California’s Prop 8. Oh baby! I could blog on and on about what’s happened and all that continues to unfold; the GLBTQ protest actions, the legal attempts to repeal Prop 8, and the continuing manueuvers by conservative groups on the other side to take this [...]

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So this is what I promise you. I won’t talk about Prop 8 forever, but right now Prop 8 is just about all that’s on my mind. The truth is, I’m surprised by how much it’s weighing on me as a lesbian, as a Christian, as a Californian, and as a woman who’s madly in [...]

Posted in Faith, Love and Grace, Marriage, News and Events 9 Comments »

The other morning I stopped by our storage unit, filled up my car with Children’s Ministry materials and drove into Oakland where I donated it all to a neighborhood church. Most of the boxes were filled with teaching resources I’d accumulated in church work prior to coming out as a lesbian. Books with game, craft, [...]

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