I need to let go. Not give up. Just…let go. I was 30 years old when I first attended an inclusive worship service in 1989. I doubt the memory of that experience will ever fade. It hasn’t yet even though I’m nearly doubled in years. I wept. Uncontrollably. As hard as I tried to gather…
Details“I came to see the great unmet hunger in welcoming congregations, across the ecumenical spectrum, for songs that proclaim the limitless love and radical welcome of God.” Singer-songwriter David Lohman has taken a step forward in satisfying that hunger with today’s release of his first album, “Fling the Church Doors Open Wide: Songs of…
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Last week, two people I haven’t seen in some time contacted me. Both of them had very similar requests (purely coincidental). They each needed a member of the LGBTQIA community to interview for a school project. The first friend contacted me on behalf of their high-school aged child, who was completing an assignment for a…
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“…With Gilligan, the Skipper too, a millionaire and his wife, a movie star, the professor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan’s Isle….” This list of names is, of course, a portion of the well-known theme song for the 1960’s show Gilligan’s Island. Something of a “sleeper classic,” the show featured a delightfully predictable premise: what…
DetailsA fabulous array of speakers and workshops, need-based airfare scholarship help is available, and thanks to our underwriters, students at RCA-affiliated schools get in free! What’s holding you back?! All the information is here – we look forward to seeing you at Hope Church in Holland, Michigan September 28 – 30!
DetailsSUPPORT FOR ROOM FOR ALL’S MISSION COMES IN MANY FORMS: Four talented men met at Hope College theater classes about 15 years ago, ended up in Brooklyn, added a couple more fine musicians and started a band called The Hollows. Eight years, two full-length albums, a couple EP’s, several music videos and a national tour later,…
DetailsWho can predict when, or how, seeds will take root? Rev. Dr. Mara Joy Norden attended a “Building an Inclusive Church” workshop several years ago, and it led to a practical interrogation of one sentence buried in an appendix in the Toolkit resource that she received at that event. She and her congregation, The Community,…
DetailsSix “Room for All” rostered churches*, along with one additional RCA congregation, recently finalized a process to dual affiliate as The Reformed Association of the UCC New York Conference. Our response is layered with joy and sorrow: We rejoice… … that LGBTQ people in these congregations know beyond doubt that they belong, free to live,…
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