Last weekend I attended the Gay Christian conference in Denver. I’ve been pondering how to write about this experience and giving myself a little space to process before doing so. This is the third time I have gathered with this community. The first time, in 2007, I went incognito (with full disclosure to their leadership)…
Happy New Year friends! Thank you for interacting with this blog in the last year. I look forward to continuing to explore and expand our experience of generous spaciousness together in the conversation to come. As I think about the coming year, I wanted to share with you a picture that has struck me as…
This weekend a number of thing collided in my brain and spirit as I sat feeling a heavy weight of sadness in our church service. As I pondered and listened and prayed, I strained to integrate the various thoughts and impressions that swirled within me. I’ve been wrestling with this heavy sadness for a while.…
As I continue to interact with people around the idea of nurturing generous spaciousness in the conversations at the intersection of faith and sexuality, it is clear that there is an appropriate time to enter such space – and times it may be unhelpful. Generous spaciousness is a conversational posture that can be helpful, and…
One of the reasons I wrote the previous post was to consider the ways we make assumptions of the text. The manner in which we interact with Scripture is an important factor in the conversations around faith and sexuality. Different traditions and different people approach Scripture differently – and this difference is not necessarily a…
I’d been pondering the notion of certainty many of us have in how we view how Jesus interacted with people. (Dave picked up on this in his comment for the last post.) And another friend, David, who blogs at NakedPastor.com wrote this: “Abraham’s primitive spirituality was radically different than Moses’ deliverance spirituality. But then Moses’…
I’ve just finished my time in Vancouver where I facilitated three events and had a number of meetings with various leaders. Vancouver has the highest population of glbtqi people in Canada several of the locals informed me. One would think, therefore, that a conversation that takes into account the reality of diversity and seriously considers…
On Saturday, October 9th, we celebrated our 5th Annual Relevant Engagement event. I say ‘celebrate’ because every year this event is like a big party. I don’t look forward to the panic every year over whether we’ll have enough people confirmed to come …. but I do look forward to the actual evening. There is…
On the last day of the Lausanne congress, we came together as Canadians to begin our reflections. I say begin because there will be a lot to unpack and some more space is needed to process such a multi-faceted and significant event. There are many blessings to count. Many incredible stories to savour. Many beautiful…
This morning I met with Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda. I want to be clear about my posture in going in to meet with the Bishop. My concern was to come humbly, from a pastoral perspective, with a missional heart and the voice of an advocate for sexual minorities. I did not come into the…