There was a farmer who was a premier corn grower in his community. His corn was always sweeter and better than anyone else’s, and it always won the blue ribbon at the county fair. At the end of the growing season, he would take his seed corn, the corn that would be sown the following […]
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God Is No Thing
One of the central functions of the dark night, he says (referring to St. John of the Cross), is to convince those who grasp after things that God cannot be grasped. In John’s native Spanish, his word for God is ‘nada’. God is no-thing. God is not a thing. And since God is not a […]
Transgender Day Of Remembrance 2021
Content warning: mentions of queer and transgender-based violence, murder, rape, and suicide. Each year the LGBTQI+ community in many places mark November 20th as Transgender day of Remembrance (TDOR) where we remember and raise our voices for the countless fallen transgender and gender queer individuals who were tortured, murdered, raped, died of suicide or died […]
God’s Humor
So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab. But God’s anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the Lord took his stand in the way as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him. And […]
Mensahe Para Sa Mga Metodistang LGBTQIA+
Sa Open Table MCC, hindi hadlang ang inyong sexuality o ang inyong gender identity para mahalin ang Diyos at ang kapwa, at patuloy maglingkod sa kapwa ninyong sugatan at nasasaktan. Maraming challenges sa isang progresibo at LGBT+ affirming na simbahan na katulad namin. May kaakibat na hirap, ngunit may kaakibat rin na ligaya at galak […]