“After VBS was over, our family was driving cross country, and … one of my sons began singing VBS protest songs in response to his brothers’ encroachment into his space!”
General Convention in 2015 encouraged the continued use of Dearly Beloved, and the Task Force wants to see how widely the resource has been used so far.
“Lesser Feasts and Fasts, last published in 2006, remains the Episcopal Church’s official calendar of optional commemorations.”
Welby: “We need a deep renewal of our values in this country.”
Gillett met people surprised that a representative of the church would want to support LGBT people.
Lord God Almighty, in whose Name the founders of this country won liberty for themselves and for us, and lit the torch of freedom for
“There is a strong temptation to look at the successes of the gay rights movement and celebrate victory. The hard fact is that the gay rights movement has not always served or assisted transgender people. Transgender people have often not been the focus or the aim of the gay rights movement, and that reality is clear in the Episcopal Church. The sad reality is that there are no transgender people employed full time in the Episcopal Church.”
The course is broken into the six units or modules to study Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Each of these faiths will be explored mainly through the use of their sacred texts.
There is widespread support for laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people from discrimination in jobs, housing, and public accommodations. Americans are broadly opposed to allowing small business owners to refuse to provide products or services to gay or lesbian people if doing so violates their religious beliefs.
For years no one could visit the traditional site of the baptism of Jesus. And no one could visit any of the various Christian sect’s churches which over the years had sprung up around the site. The entire area was scattered with land mines in 1967 as an aftermath of the Six Day War. The Halo Trust has secured the permission of both Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in addition to each of the Christian sects with an abandoned church in the area, to remove the mines.