Stories That Heal: Out of Order

Three years ago, I said “yes” to a British filmmaker who wanted to tell the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...

More Light Sunday 2015

The mission theme for this year’s More Light Sunday is: abundance. This year’s More Light Sunday is the first Sunday of June:...

National Day of Silence

Adrienne Rich, from “Cartographies of Silence” 3. The technology of silence The rituals, the etiquette the blurring of terms silence not...

Making Space

I don’t think I’ll ever forget the first time a teenager asked me if they were going to hell. I’d been...

Who Do We Crucify?

This year’s Paschal Triduum is launched. We have been at table. Now we are at the cross. The church is just...

Resistant Readings as Holy Resistance

(Trigger warning: Explicit discussion of genitalia, hate speech, and sacred language.) Our feet are still dusty from the Jerusalem Road. The...

MLP Statement Against the RFRA expansions

More Light Presbyterians represents over 200 Presbyterian Church, USA congregations nationwide. For over 40 years, More Light Presbyterians has worked for...

Betraying Bias: Time to Update PCUSA Social Witness Policy on RFRA

You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same...

Neither Religion Nor Freedom: Why the RFRA is Dangerous

It was less than twenty-four hours after attending an inspirational multi-faith meeting of local Ohio leaders about coordinating a response to...

Nothing Has Changed, But the Change is Not Nothing

I keep telling people that nothing has changed. Don’t get me wrong. When the news of the vote regarding Amendment 14-f...