Last night I was invited by PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and Growing American Youth (a local LGBTQ+ youth safe space for the greater St. Louis area) to speak on a panel of religious leaders about our faith tradition’s stance on LGBTQ+ people. I sat alongside the legendary Rabbi Susan Talve, aContinueContinue reading “PFLAG Panel (part 1): Confessions of a Naive Gay Christian”
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How do you talk about God?
How will WE talk about God? Will speak words of God’s love to those who desperately need them? Will we speak of God’s justice in the courts that are judging so many unjustly? How will we talk about God?
The Way of Jesus
Jesus offers a way in this world: Jesus stands before God’s people and declares that the oppressed should go free, the poor should be lifted up. Jesus stands with us in our pain, and offers us a way forward. Jesus stands in the midst of our growing diversity and longs to gather us together. That is a way that we can choose to follow.
What do you make of miracles?
Whether you’re on the road to Emmaus, or El Maizal, or you are just headed down Delmar Boulevard later. May you be prepared to encounter the miraculous, even in the most mundane moments.
Mike Angell 