Back in 1975, as a naïve young woman, I started my university course. My family were conservative with a Roman Catholic background, albeit they did not attend Mass. We lived in a very white, West of Scotland coastal town. University was therefore something of a culture shock to me, but a good one. My eyes… Read More
Thursday Prayer: Our brother, the Ethiopian Eunuch
Thank you God, for our brother, the Ethiopian Eunuch, baptised into your life a forebear in the family of Christ. Thank you for all of our forebears, and siblings who are embodied in ways that disrupt heteropatriarchal norms; who are part of the family you are making: gay and lesbian inside and outside of gender… Read More
The Pastoral is Political: Personal Health Condition
Since my last experience trying to phone my primary care doctor’s office and get a refill amounted to a series of voice mails left by me, which received no answer and led to no renewed prescription, I took the doctor’s advice and today registered for their Internet portal. I looked over my records online and… Read More
Top Ten Sexy Ways to Proclaim the Gospel?
I have the privilege to serve as the co-moderator of the Board of the Covenant Network, which is a group of Presbyterians who have been seeking unity, inclusion, and equality in the Presbyterian Church (USA) for almost 20 years. This past week, the PCUSA achieved marriage equality when a majority of our presbyteries voted to… Read More
Mutual Forbearance in an Age of Fear
I’ve recently blogged about the “nontroversy” (non-controversy) of the couple in Idaho who own the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel and are claiming religious persecution. Donald and Lynn Knapp fear the government is going to put them in jail and fine them because they won’t officiate same gender weddings at the Hitching Post. It’s a nontroversy… Read More
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