by Lindy Thompson | Jun 5, 2017 | Gender or Sexism, Sexual Orientation or Heterosexism |
By Lindy Thompson
by Rev. Liam Hooper | Apr 25, 2017 | Gender or Sexism, Intersectionality, Transgender |
By Rev. Liam Hooper
by Reconciling Ministries Network | Feb 21, 2017 | Gender or Sexism, Transgender |
By Rev. Liam Hooper
by Rev. Liam Hooper | Feb 7, 2017 | Gender or Sexism, Transgender |
By Rev. Liam Hooper
by Pastor Jeanelle Nicolas Ablola | Mar 11, 2015 | Gender or Sexism, Intersectionality, Race or Racism, Transgender |
We remember and celebrate because the lives of women and, especially, Trans women, are always at risk.
by Rev. Izzy Alvaran | Feb 2, 2015 | Gender or Sexism, Intersectionality, Privilege, Race or Racism, Sexual Orientation or Heterosexism |
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?
by Billy Kluttz | Dec 4, 2014 | Gender or Sexism, Race or Racism, Scripture |
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...
by Rev. Andy Oliver | Nov 25, 2014 | Gender or Sexism, History, Intersectionality, Race or Racism, Sexual Orientation or Heterosexism |
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...
by M Barclay | Nov 20, 2014 | Gender or Sexism, Intersectionality, Transgender |
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...
by Rev. Vicki Flippin | Oct 21, 2014 | Gender or Sexism, Intersectionality, Sexual Orientation or Heterosexism, UMC |
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...
by Sara Strickland | Oct 8, 2014 | Gender or Sexism, History, Sexual Orientation or Heterosexism |
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...
by Rev. Mary Kay Totty | Mar 25, 2014 | Gender or Sexism, Transgender |
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...
by M Barclay | Jul 23, 2013 | Gender or Sexism, Intersectionality, Sexual Orientation or Heterosexism, Young Adults/Youth |
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...
by M Barclay | Jul 1, 2013 | Biblical Obedience, Gender or Sexism, Privilege, Race or Racism, Transgender |
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...
by M Barclay | Feb 15, 2013 | Gender or Sexism, Sexual Orientation or 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...
by Audrey Krumbach | Dec 18, 2012 | Gender or Sexism |
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...
by Reconciling Ministries Network | Jun 20, 2012 | Gender or Sexism, Reconciling Movement/Process, Sexual Orientation or Heterosexism, UMC, UMC Conferences, Worship/Liturgical |
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...
by Reconciling Ministries Network | Jun 12, 2012 | Gender or Sexism, Marriage, Reconciling Movement/Process, UMC Conferences, Worship/Liturgical |
– 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...
by Rev. Gil Caldwell | May 17, 2012 | Gender or Sexism, Transgender |
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,...
by Leland Spencer | Mar 29, 2010 | Coming Out, Gender or Sexism, Reconciling Movement/Process, Sexual Orientation or Heterosexism |
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...
by Rev. Gil Caldwell | Jan 19, 2010 | Gender or Sexism |
It is is in writing/speaking and reading/listening, that I have found God is able to take us to places we seldom visit. A recent commentary on one of my blogs prompts the following. I will print an excerpt of the commentary and offer my response. (In Response to...
by Rev. Gil Caldwell | May 6, 2009 | Gender or Sexism, Race or Racism, Sexual Orientation or Heterosexism |
This post references Decision No. 1111 by the Judicial Council of The United Methodist Church. “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been known. And now faith, hope...
by Rev. Gil Caldwell | Mar 18, 2009 | Gender or Sexism, Sexual Orientation or Heterosexism |
Grace and I after 51 years of marriage, continue the emotionally draining process of re-discovering and then discarding, articles, magazines and books that we have saved over the years. A recent re-discovery; Volume 32, Number 1 of the 1972 MOTIVE, Lesbian/Feminist...
by Darrius Hills | Feb 23, 2009 | Gender or Sexism |
A few weekends ago, I went to Michigan Ave. to walk around as I normally do. While I was at Water Tower Place, I saw a mother with 4 young daughters. They were walking in front of me headed to the main area of the mall. The picture of this mother and her daughters was...
by Darrius Hills | Oct 29, 2008 | Gender or Sexism |
Food for thought… Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent. (1 Timothy 2:11-12, NRSV) A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike; to restrain...