This is the online session of Open Table MCC about the basics of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression, or SOGIE – which is important to learn about especially for advocates of LGBTQ+ rights. Where does SOGIE-based oppression come from, and how does patriarchy play a role in that oppression? What is patriarchy in the […]
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Basics of SOGIE – Online Class
This is the online session of Open Table MCC about the basics of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression, or SOGIE – which is important to learn about especially for advocates of LGBTQ+ rights. Anatomical Sex – Sex (sometimes called biological sex, anatomical sex, or physical sex) is comprised of things like genitals, chromosomes, hormones, […]
Physical Touch and Our Easter Hope
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. […]
Easter’s First Witness Was a Woman
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the […]
The Passion Story of Jesus
The passion and death of Jesus is told to us from the lectionary reading of the gospel of John. In first century, early Christians told stories about Jesus orally. The Apostles and other disciples told what they saw and heard either by their own selves or by other witnesses. Then when the gospels were written […]