Beloveds, it has been a week since elections, and many still are unable to process their feelings and emotions, so I invite each one of us to take the time we each need- to feel the rage, despair, disappointment, reality, pray, if it will be helpful, and when you feel ready, to find allies to continue the work for justice.  

Today, I share with you this message shared by Rev. Dr. Giovanni Arroyo, the General Secretary of General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR) of our denomination;

Beloveds, I am sharing with you a message from the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Church and Society that I cannot share any better than this-

In this very binary world, many oWhat was the second anniversary of the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, was inaugurated as “National Coming Out Day” in 1989 by Robert Eichberg (a psychologist) and Jean O'Leary (a longtime activist and political leader), as a positive response to the anti-LGBT action of the day.