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Greater NW Pride: Spirit Alive: Can We Be an All Souls Church in a Some Souls World?

12/21/2018

What Will It Take to Transform the World?

Greater NW Pride: Re-Hearing the Magnificat as a Gay Pastor

12/20/2018

Re-Hearing the Magnificat as a Gay Pastor This coming Sunday, Dec. 23rd, is the fourth Sunday of Advent. The Gospel reading is Luke 1:39-55, in which the latter part of this reading (vs. 46-55) is the famous Magnificat. The passage opens up with Mary setting out and, “with haste” makes it out to a Judean town in the hill country, where she has fled to the house of her relative, Elizabeth. These two women—both outsiders to the dominant culture because of their gender—share joy in their ...

Why "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" is "Must See"

Cesie Delve Scheuermann

12/19/2018

Why "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" is "Must See"

Greater NW Pride: Baptismal Affirmation and Transgender People

Brett Webb-Mitchell

12/13/2018

Baptismal Affirmation and Transgender People The Church of England recently issued rules to their priests on ways of being “creative and sensitive” as they welcome transgender people into the Church. Benjamin Fearnow wrote that the Episcopal Church’s “House of Bishops approved the pastoral guidance document that advises Anglican clergy to address trans individuals by their chosen names, rather than their birth names. The move to welcome more transgender individuals into the church, the BBC ...

Remember: Gratitude Makes You Happier

Cesie Delve Scheuermann

12/12/2018

Remember: Gratitude Makes You Happier

Spirit Alive: It Was the Best Day Ever

Lowell Greathouse

12/7/2018

Life Can Be So Good!

Greater NW Pride: World AIDS Day 2018

Brett Webb-Mitchell

12/6/2018

World AIDS Day 2018 December 1 was World’s AIDS Day. Dec. 1 was founded as World AIDS Day in 1988. We have had 30 years of World’s AIDS Day, in which this is a day to unite against HIV, with people showing their support for people living with HIV, as well as to commemorate those people who have died. Currently, there are approximately 34 million people who have the virus, which was first identified in 1984. Over 35 million people have died of HIV or AIDS. These are the facts. Then there...