Stories

Changing Church: Rev. Marcia C. Fleischman, Co-pastor, Broadway Church, Kansas City, Missouri

Where are the bold ones who will play my song, Which from the beginning I wanted all along? Male and female dancing together, Joined by love, respect and not a tether. A grand symphony of musical light Playing, displaying throughout the night. The love of the creation with which I flow, To join the chorus […]

Changing Church: Rev. Virginia Marie Rincon, Episcopal Priest, Hispanic Missioner for the Diocese of Maine, Founder and Executive Director of TengoVoz, Portland, Maine

Rev. Virginia Marie Rincon In the group of women gathered for TengoVoz/I Have Voice meetings, the Rev. Virginia Marie Rincon begins the liturgy with a poem, often one that she has written. The women continue the liturgy by reflecting on the poem. In her strong, lyrical voice she reads her poem entitled “I Am a […]

Changing Church: Rev. Larry E. Schultz, Minister of Music, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, North Carolina

She’s got the whole world in Her hands. . . She’s got the whole world in Her hands. He’s got the little tiny baby in His hands. . . . He’s got the whole world in His hands. She’s got everybody here in Her hands. . . . She’s got the whole world in Her […]

Changing Church: Rev. Dr. Monica A. Coleman, African Methodist Episcopal Minister, Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions, Claremont School of Theology

“Womanist theologies of salvation state that Jesus Christ can be seen as a black woman,” Rev. Dr. Monica A. Coleman writes in her book Making a Way Out of No Way. “Postmodern womanist theology argues that a black woman is often Christ. The Savior may be a teenager, a person living with a disability, a […]

Changing Church: Mark Mattison, General Editor of the Divine Feminine Version of the New Testament

   Matthew 6: 1“Be careful not to publicize your pursuit of justice to be noticed, or you will have no reward from your Mother who is in heaven. 2So don’t blow your own horn when you make donations, like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that people might praise them. […]

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