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Changing Church: Recording Artist Shannon Kincaid’s Singing “We Sound a Call to Freedom” and “Welcome Our Sister-Brother Creator”

By jannaPosted on May 23, 2012Posted in Changing Church, ResourcesNo Comments

Shannon Kincaid, award-winning recording artist, sings “We Sound a Call to Freedom,” “Welcome Our Sister-Brother Creator” and “Wisdom, Sophia, Joins in Our Labor”: “We Sound a Call to Freedom” “Welcome Our Sister-Brother Creator” Words © Jann Aldredge-Clanton From Inclusive Hymns for Liberating Christians (Eakin Press, 2006) and Inclusive Hymns for Liberation, Peace, and Justice (Eakin […]

Changing Church: Christina Cavener, “Christ-Sophia Loves us, Restores us, and Sets us Free”

By jannaPosted on May 19, 2012Posted in Changing Church, ResourcesNo Comments

Christ-Sophia Loves us, Restores us, and Sets us Free by Christina Cavener Let us begin by reading a Scripture from the Gospel of Luke. -Luke 7:35-50 Sophia, Our Love-Maker, We are afraid of your love, your intimacy. We are used to being judged, but we are not used to being loved, totally. We […]

Changing Church: “Sermon to Catholic Priests” and “Don’t Pray to a Lord”

By jannaPosted on May 15, 2012Posted in Changing Church, ResourcesNo Comments

Read this timely, powerful sermon to Catholic priests by Jeanette Blonigen Clancy, author of book and blog, “God is Not Three Guys in the Sky”: http://godisnot3guyscom-jeanette.blogspot.com/2010/12/why-i-dont-make-sign-of-cross.html Jeanette asked me to write this guest blogpost: http://godisnot3guyscom-jeanette.blogspot.com/2012/05/dont-pray-to-lord.html

Changing Church: Rev. Dr. Nancy Petty, Pastor, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh, North Carolina

By jannaPosted on May 7, 2012Posted in Changing Church, StoriesNo Comments

In July of 2011, Rev. Dr. Nancy Petty, pastor of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, took a stand that few other pastors have taken. She refused to sign marriage licenses for heterosexual couples until same-sex couples can legally marry in her state of North Carolina. With Rev. Dr. Petty’s leadership, the congregation voted unanimously in November […]

Changing Church: Rev. Dr. Rebecca L. Kiser, Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, West Plains, Missouri

By jannaPosted on May 1, 2012Posted in Changing Church, StoriesNo Comments

“Our Bible contains lots more images and metaphors for God than the official, orthodox Trinitarian formula,” Rev. Dr. Rebecca Kiser proclaims in a powerful sermon on Holy Wisdom. “God is indefinable in human thought and language, so we end up using many names to try and capture the hugeness, the awesome enormity, the variety of […]