Reverend Elder Cecilia Eggleston, the moderator of Metropolitan Community Churches, has a video message for World AIDS Day. World AIDS Day is taking place on December 1 to raise awareness around HIV and AIDS, and to support the 37.9 million people around the world living with the virus. This year’s theme will be “Ending the […]
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Community By Community: World AIDS Day 2019
2019 World AIDS Day theme is Community by Community. Around the world, we December 1 as World AIDS day to look back and reflect on the many efforts by different peoples, organizations, and groups locally and internationally in fighting HIV and its social stigma. To look back also means to see what else can be […]
Choose Healing Over Harm for Trans People
Mark 2:23-28 (NRSV) One sabbath he was going through the grainfields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and […]
Remembering Our Transgender Siblings
November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance. We remember and recognize the long struggle for justice for Transgender persons and all persons of diverse gender identities and expressions. We remember all transgender persons that have been murdered and violently attacked throughout the world and in our country, the Philippines, because of transphobia and intolerance, especially […]
The Queer Challenges of Ruth and Naomi
Preaching by Open Table MCC’s Pastor Joseph Tiu San Jose at Resurrection MCC in Houston, Texas, USA, last November 17, 2019. […]