This Pastor’s Month, Pastor Joseph San Jose shares his journey of becoming the pastor of Open Table MCC – a story of faith, struggle, and shepherding a radically-inclusive church for queer and progressive people. […]
Events
Bridging
The divide between many in the LGBT+ community and institutional religion is deep, carved out by years of exclusion, judgment, and spiritual injury inflicted by churches. For those who feel called to both their authentic selves and a spiritual life, how do we bridge this great divide? How do we build new bridges of radical […]
Christian & LGBTQIA+ Leaders United: Open Table MCC Takes Part in Free to Be Me Philippines
Open Table MCC continues to break barriers by championing faith and inclusion through its active participation in the Free to Be Me (F2BM) Philippines program. Represented by Rev. Joseph San Jose, the progressive Christian church has been part of the F2BM Communities of Action (CoA) since 2022 and took part in the program’s closing event […]
Accountability
In this preaching, we will discuss about the concept of accountability from both a spiritual and societal perspective. Spirituality acknowledges two aspects of human existence: being “wonderfully made” in God’s image, and also being imperfect with destructive tendencies. A central theme is the widespread difficulty people have in admitting they are wrong. This problem of […]
Relational
For the first sermon in our “Spiritual & Religious” Teaching Series, we explored a question that many of us have asked: “Is it really separate?” The question refers to the perceived divide between being “spiritual” and being “religious.” The sermon defined spirituality as a deep connection—to ourselves, to others, to nature, and to what we […]