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Gender Justice JAM, Week 1 Week 1: A Faith-Based Understanding of Gender Justice. Featuring Aaron Scott, gender justice staff officer and the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights & Social Justice. Find interpreter’s notes from this event here. Episcopalians and others gathered in a 12-week virtual education and formation series designed…
In honor of National Coming Out Day, we are proud to feature an article written by the Rev. Melvin Soriano, Priest Associate at St. John’s Cathedral and Associate Chaplain of Canterbury USC. He is also convener of “The Gathering: A Space for Asian-American Spirituality” in the Diocese of Los Angeles. On this National Coming Out Day,…
I’m transgender, I’m a layperson, and I’m 39 years old. I grew up in a tongues-talking United Methodist Church in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, where my dad was the pastor. We were a poor congregation in a poor community, deeply divided over the inclusion and dignity of LGBTQ+ people. I remember thinking to…
Faith-based organizer Aaron Scott has been named gender justice staff officer—a new Episcopal Church position called for by the 80th General Convention that is dedicated to LGBTQ+ and women’s ministries. He will start on April 29.
In the fall of 1995, I was a first-year divinity school student interning at Fenway Health’s Violence Recovery Program, which supports LGBTQIA2S+ people who have experienced violence. I had only recently heard the word “transgender,” learning how it could refer both to people who transitioned from one binary gender to another, and to people whose gender…
Working alongside the United Nations’ “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” campaign, the four member churches of Churches Beyond Borders have compiled a 16-day devotional focusing on the campaign’s theme opposing intersectional violence against women.
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