@kittredgecherry.bsky.socialJohn McNeill was a pioneering #gay priest, psychotherapist, author, theologian and Jesuit scholar who inspired many LGBTQ people of faith and allies. He died Sept. 22, 2015. McNeill wrote the 1976 book “The Church and the Homosexual.” @kibbyer.bsky.social #FaithfullyLGBT qspirit.net/john-mcneill...
@opentablelgbt.bsky.socialTODAY we are meeting to plan the #LGBT+ #Christian retreat weekend at St Beuno's North Wales Friday 30 October - Sunday 1 November. READ MORE & BOOK HERE: bit.ly/StBeunosLGBTQ26 #FaithfullyLGBT
@kittredgecherry.bsky.socialHenri Nouwen was a priest and author who wrestled with his homosexuality. He died on Sept. 21, 1996. His struggle with being #gay may have added depth to his writing. His “spirituality of the heart” touched millions. #FaithfullyLGBT qspirit.net/henri-nouwen...
@opentablelgbt.bsky.socialTODAY our communities in Birmingham, Cambridge, Kendal, Lincoln, Liverpool, London - West Hampstead & Salford are gathering. FFI: opentable.lgbt/our-communities
#ComeAsYouAre #MoreThanWelcome #FaithfullyLGBT
@kittredgecherry.bsky.socialHildegard of Bingen is a medieval German mystic, artist, composer and scientist who loved another nun named Richardis and wrote with ecstasy about Mary. Her feast day is 9/17. Hildegard celebrated God’s green web of life as “viriditas.” #faithfullyLGBT
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@kittredgecherry.bsky.socialNew book: Marriage equality is put into historical context in “To Have and to Hold: Same-Gender Marriage in the Household of God” by Horace L. Griffin, gay African American Episcopal priest and former seminary professor. @wipfandstock.bsky.social #FaithfullyLGBT www.amazon.com/dp/149822378...
@kittredgecherry.bsky.social25 years ago: Mychal Judge, chaplain to NY firefighters, died helping others in World Trade Center attack on 9/11/2001. He rose to sainthood by popular acclaim. He was active in the LGBTQ ministry, but few knew his gay orientation. #911Anniversary #911day #faithfullyLGBT
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@kittredgecherry.bsky.socialRainbow icons of Mary highlight her compassionate connection to the LGBTQ community -- evoking both controversy and celebration. Various rainbow Mary images by contemporary artists are posted for Marymas or the Nativity of Mary on Sept. 8. #faithfullylgbt qspirit.net/rainbow-mary/
@follyandwhim.bsky.socialI am gay and Christian, a queer follower of Jesus Christ, and I believe God loves us all. Including the LGBTQ+ people. We all are fearfully and wonderfully made in God's image and God loves us all, not in spite of our queerness but because of it. God bless you. 🙏✝️🌈
#FaithfullyLGBT 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@kittredgecherry.bsky.socialCarl Bean was the founding archbishop of the Unity Fellowship Church Movement in the Black LGBTQ community, an early AIDS activist and Motown singer of the 1977 gay-liberation anthem “I Was Born This Way.” He died Sept. 7, 2021 at age 77. #faithfullylgbt qspirit.net/carl-bean-bl...
@kittredgecherry.bsky.socialMaurice and Theofredus are 3rd-century martyr-saints and soldiers of Thebes with a homosocial bond. The men gaze lovingly into each other’s eyes in a 15th-century illuminated manuscript. Artists often showed Maurice as a black knight. #faithfullyLGBT qspirit.net/maurice-theo...
@opentablelgbt.bsky.socialTODAY our communities in Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Liverpool, London - Bow & Bethnal Green, Reading, Runcorn, and Weymouth gather.
FFI: opentable.lgbt/our-communit...
#ComeAsYouAre #FaithfullyLGBT #MoreThanWelcome #PlaceToBelong #RoomAtTheTable