Alka's Angle

Beloveds, as we enter the last days of November, and we begin to experience the cold weather, our hearts somehow start to feel the gratitude for life and all it holds for us. And in this season of gratitude our hearts are more prepared to share our blessings in various ways. I am grateful to all who took the time to fill out the pledge cards this past Sunday-

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.

In this very binary world, many of us struggle to live very non-binary lives. We struggle to live beyond the black and white, beyond the either/or because a lot of what we experience in life is not either/or but both/and. For me- this seems to be very prominently that both/and kind of a week, and I will do my best to share that with you today.