Introduction: For centuries there is a particular devotion to the blessed mother Mary northwest of the town of Avellino which is near the city of Naples in Italy. There Mary is known as the Madonna of Montevergine. She also goes by the title of Mama Schiavana or Mother of slaves and the oppressed. But she […]
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A Church in the Philippines Seeks to Form an LGBT+ Choir
Open Table Metropolitan Community Church (or Open Table MCC) is an LGBT+ affirming Christian Church based in Quezon City, Philippines, that aspires to form probably the country’s first LGBT+ chorus. The choir Open Table MCC is forming will be called the Proud Faith Chorale, with hopes that its members will have a wide range […]
Salvation in Coming Out
2016 10 12 Our coming out like that of Jesus is not a onetime event. It will be a series and a lifetime indeed of coming outs, crucifixions, resurrections, empty tombs and expelling demons who know our true selves as children of God. Coming out is not alien to Jesus. The greatest story ever told, […]
Sunday Preaching: Psalm 139
Psalm 139:1-18 (New International Version) For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before […]
Sunday Preaching: Of Capernaums and Nazareths
Mark 2:1-12 (NIV) A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four […]