As I Have Loved You
By Lindy Thompson
A Light Shines in the Darkness: Transgender Conversations
By Rev. Liam Hooper
Transgender Lenten Devotional Writing
By Rev. Liam Hooper
Accommodating Our Transgender Youth
By Rev. Liam Hooper
Remembrance is not a passive act
We remember and celebrate because the lives of women and, especially, Trans women, are always at risk.
Black History Month: Reflections of a Brown Gay Ally
How do I learn to be an ally of my black sisters and brothers as a brown gay man also trying to learn how to appreciate my brown-ness and fully embrace my gay identity?
Enough: A musical reflection on Isaiah 40:1-11
In reading Isaiah 40: 1-11 this week, I hear a resounding cry of “enough.” In my musical reflection, I ask where God might be speaking words of “comfort” and “enough” in the world today. In my context, I hear those cries most clearly coming from...
Why Ferguson matters to RMN
I am saddened titles like the one above need ever be written. It might not seem obvious at first as to why an LGBTQ organization would advocate against oppression that falls outside the realm of human sexuality and gender identity. Some might feel that if RMN embraces...
More questions than answers on Trans Day of Remembrance
I’ve had a lot on my mind this year as Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) approaches. This year’s remembrance is markedly different for me since I’ve come out in recent months as a non-binary identified person, or genderqueer – an identity that falls under the...
Trials and tribulations
Originally posted on the Church of the Village blog I remember that day in seminary well. I walked into the chapel for our midday worship, and by the end of the first hymn, tears were streaming down my face and I sniffled and sobbed until the benediction. It wasn’t...
Do we need an International Lesbian Day?
Did you know International Lesbian Day is a thing? Because I didn’t know it’s a thing! It’s a day of inconclusive origin that doesn’t seem to be acknowledged much outside of New Zealand and Australia. Certainly not in my home state of Arkansas. Is this...
Sojourner Truth and gender justice
listen to the sermon here – Wow! From slavery to the first black woman to successfully win a law suit in New York to Pentecostal Methodism, to a utopian commune with questionable sexual ethics and mysterious deaths, to the lecture circuit for women’s rights...
I believe you.
Last month, the youth from my church and a few others in TX visited the Houston Area Women’s Center where we all expanded our understanding of teen dating violence. My kids learned really important things like the fact that boys are abused too and that it’s never the...
Intersectionality: the vision of the Kindom
One of the most important words in recent years to enter the vocabulary of change-makers is “intersectionality.” It’s basically naming the reality that there is no such thing as a single issue of injustice disconnected from other injustices. For instance, marriage...
The Sexism of Heterosexism
It is often said by anti-gay pastors and other public figures that LGBTQ equality threatens to “tear the fabric of our society.” Though I have yet to hear any of these people explain exactly what that means, I have a guess. My theory – and the theory of many others...War on men?
In a classic Peanuts strip printed in syndication across the country on November 18th, Schroeder responds to a very enthusiastic phone call from Lucy with the simple response, “It’s not proper for a girl to call a boy on the telephone.” What is truly remarkable is...Working for Change in Arkansas
Annual Conference in Arkansas did not start out well this year. The box of RMN materials somehow did not get loaded in the car with the rest of the materials for our ACT table. We loaded the table with stoles and some bullying information borrowed from our friends at...
Northern Illinois United Methodists Commit to Back LGBTs
– From a news release – Proclaiming the Baptismal promise to “resist evil, injustice, and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves,” United Methodists in the Northern Illinois Conference (NIC) today made the commitment to...
Christian Persecution in the 21st Century: A Call of Conscience to Defend the Lives of LGBT People
Two weeks ago the United Methodist General Conference reaffirmed 40 years of anti-gay prejudice, voting to continue to bar lesbian and gay people from ministry and marriage while faithful gay United Methodists had to endure speeches accusing them of bestiality,...
Christian, Gay, and Feminist
Recently, The Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia hosted a research symposium with the theme, “Feminist Research Across the Disciplines.” I had the opportunity to present a narrative account of my own intersection of...