Rev. Joseph San Jose of Open Table Metropolitan Community Church was invited last March 5 for PUP Pride 2020, to give a talk about religion, spirituality, and sexuality. The theme for PUP’s pride event this year is “Defying Adversity, Forwarding Advocacy”. PUP Pride is not just about celebrations and empowerment. As part of the LGBTQ+ […]
ChurchBlog
Beyond Stonewall: First Openly Gay Bishop in USA
In 2003, the reverend Gene Robinson became the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church. What followed was a campaign of death threats and intimidation that would test him to the core. From the Smithsonian Channel’s Series: Smithsonian Time Capsule: Beyond Stonewall […]
Love Wins? Dokumentaryo ni Howie G. Severino
Open Table MCC and other LGBT-Affirming Churches in the Philippines have been featured in GMA Network’s I-Witness, in a documentary by Howie G. Severino titled “Love Wins?” Aired (September 28, 2019): Makasalanan ang turing ng mga konserbatibong relihyoso sa pagsasamang LGBT. Kaya naman ilan sa kanila, kinailangan pang magatago mula sa sarili nilang pamilya o […]
Rebuilding The Table
The past three to four years have not been easy for the eight to ten or so people who remained with Open Table Church. We gave up the yellow room. We moved temporarily to a not-so-ideal location. Some people decided to leave. A beloved leader passed away just this year. I cannot say we merely […]
What Is The Church? (Part 2)
by Ptr. Joseph Tiu San Jose For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made […]