Religion Is A Queer Thing

This is the text I preached off of. It was a draft, and I was tired, so what I actually preached had a lot more editorializing and extemporizing. When I copied it from GoogleDocs into Word to pr...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2010/07/22-children-of-living-god-pentecost-9.html

-- with Annie playing Marty Haugen's "Shepherd Me, O God" for Psalm 23 -- and are at the bottom, just before the audiolink.] Easter 4C - April 25, 2010 > Acts 9:36-43 >  > Psalm 23 >  >...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2010/04/easter-4c-shepherding-community.html

BAPTISM OF JESUS (C) - JANUARY 10, 2010 Isaiah 43:1-7 Psalm 29 Acts 8:14-17 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 > Will you pray with me? >  > Creating, Sustaining, Redeeming God, I invite you...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2010/01/baptism-of-jesus-c-january-10-2009.html

Life is not always what you expect. Sometimes the most extraordinary of things happens in the midst of life’s ordinary moments. One minute you know exactly what’s supposed to happen and the...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/12/imagining-mary.html

Yesterday, I made the mistake of once again attempting the wilds of the Christmas Tree Shop. I know. I know. I should have known better. But I was honestly hopeful that it would not be that bad. ...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/12/finding-joy-in-chaos.html

This parable recounted on the blog Telling Secrets, is by the South African activist, Olive Schreiner,and it is one of my very favorite sacred texts for it evokes the collective ongoing journey ...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/12/making-path-to-waters-edge.html

This weekend as I went Advent shopping for the church, I found myself once again confronted with the reality of the Christmas explosion. As I searched for purple Advent candles from store to stor...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/11/preparing-path-to-advent.html

Last Sunday was known as “Christ the King Sunday” or in more progressive denominations, “Reign of Christ Sunday;” a Sunday in our liturgical calendar at CWM that always draws moans and gr...

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This week begins our prelude to Advent. While the stores have already decked the halls and begun the annual onslaught of post-Halloween Christmas music, we in the Church are slowing down our pace...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/11/virtually-advent.html

The General Board of Church and Society of our denomination just unveiled it's latest resource on the issue of homophobia and heterosexism. This site grew out of a mandate from General Confere...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/10/eradicating-homophobia-and-heterosexism.html

Last week I had the privilege to stand on the lawn of our nation’s capitol and watch from afar as the thousands upon thousands of equality marchers made their way down Pennsylvania Avenue. Wa...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-beautiful-feet.html

In just a few short days, thousands of people will descend upon our nation's capitol to march for justice during the National Equality March . Fifty years after Stonewall and forty years after th...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/10/marching-for-equality.html

Today’s scripture is one of the most popular miracles portrayed in the life of Jesus. Recorded in all four Gospels, it appears a total of six times in varying forms. The fact that all four earl...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/10/finding-wholeness-in-our-brokenness.html

The news out of Minneapolis is wonderful!   This week, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted to:  - allow partnered gay men & lesbians to become ministerial leaders in th...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/08/we-are-church-together.html

My best friend and I have been talking recently about issues of church accessibility. ] I expect we at CWM would say that we would be happy to do whatever necessary to be inclusive and accessibl...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-do-we-embody-welcome.html

Hi! I am Robert Wyckoff, usually known also as Bob, and I will be the supply pastor here at Cambridge Welcoming Ministries during Pastor Tiffany’s maternity leave. By way of introduction, he...

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The two parables for this evening read like a lyric from an overly optimistic musical. Similar to Annie’s cloyingly confident hope that the “sun will come out tomorrow,” Jesus’ simplistic...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/06/sowing-and-reaping-with-god-at.html

The state of Massachusetts has a bill on the floor titled, "An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes" (H.1728/S.1687). This proposed law would prohibit discrimination in emp...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/06/call-to-action-act-relative-to-gender.html

Deep in the South in 1962, 22 year old Zelda was giving birth in a university hospital. Poor, indigent and black, Zelda was not like other patients. Far from the nice, genteel white southern wome...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/06/trinity-sunday.html

Today in churches around the world, we celebrate the festival of Pentecost, the coming of the Spirit, the birthing of the church, the breaking in of God’s kin-dom. Congregations far and wide dr...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/06/pentecost-sunday.html

These past few weeks, the lectionary readings have been from the First Letter of John. At the heart of each reading for the past three weeks and for the next two weeks has been one word…love. I...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/06/sermon-for-mothers-day.html

"Weeping may linger for the night," - Psalm 30:5a Today we weep at the news that California's Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, the unjust ballot initiative that stripped the right to marry f...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/05/stand-our-ground.html

When I was little, I had a children’s bible storybook. It began with some stories from the Hebrew Testament…Moses and the burning bush, David and Goliath, Samson and Delilah. It went on to te...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/05/we-ve-only-just-begun.html

I typically avoid reading the comments to online news articles because it seems to me that the majority of responses are extreme, offensive (often ignorant) reactions against the article.  Thus,...

http://welcomingministries.blogspot.com/2009/04/resurrecting-radical-church_08.html

After service Sunday, March 22, 2009 members of the CWM congregation gathered to discuss with whom we have a relationship. This is the first 'wheel' to come from that discussion. Further details ...

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