Founders Metropolitan Community Church in Los Angeles, the founding church for the Metropolitan Community Churches around the world, sets up a nativity scene that takes direct aim at the separation policies of the southern borders of United States. It is jarring, but also thought-provoking. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, on display in front of Founders MCC, […]
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Christmas Message 2018
John 1:1-4,14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all […]
No Room This Christmas
NO ROOM!By Professor Revelation VeluntaNew Testament & Cultural StudiesUnion Theological Seminary (PH) This is the reality of our world today. There is no room. No room for refugees. No room for Lumads. No room for the Rohingya. No room for Palestinians. No room for PLHIV. No room for LGBTQi. No room for the other. No […]
#6 Christmas 2012 Reflection: Recruited for a Mission
Gospel Reading: Luke 1: 39-45 Today’s Gospel features the meeting of two women. Specifically, two pregnant women. Elizabeth was too old and was probably waiting for her time to die when she received news that she was pregnant. In this particular meeting, she was 6 months on the way and just came out of her […]
#5 Christmas 2012 Reflection: Being Angels
Gospel Reading: Luke 1: 26 – 38 Five days before Christmas. Every year’s the same for me: work, work, work. Christmas day? Still at work. But being part of MCC makes me feel closer to HIM and I know now that GOD wants us to understand why Jesus was born: LOVE. Five years in MCC […]