For its next outing, our Engaged Hearts and Minds group will be going to see the new movie MILK. This film tells the story of prominent gay activist and San
Continue readingNew Testament Reading—1 Corinthians 11: 17-29 Toward the end of the first century, there lived in Rome a Spanish poet named Martial. In all, he wrote over 1,500 poems. In
Continue readingNew Testament Reading—Galatians 3: 23-29 Earlier this year, I went through a month of fascination with the TV show Supernanny. Have any of you seen this show? For those of
Continue readingNew Testament Reading—Matthew 7: 1-12 In his classic work The Souls of Black Folk, the famous black scholar W.E.B. DuBois wrote of a black predicament he called “double-consciousness.” He described
Continue readingNew Testament Reading: Matthew 11: 16-19 A Voice of Liberation Reading: “A Gay Manifesto” (1969-1970) Carl Wittman “San Francisco is a refugee camp for homosexuals. We have fled
Continue readingNew Testament Reading—Luke 4: 16-21 Over the next four weeks or so, we will be doing a series entitled “Lenses of Faith.” In this series, we will be exposing ourselves
Continue readingSome of you have perhaps heard of the rather important, extremely significant city known as Squiggly-Wiggly-Ville. Unfortunately, however, there was a time when the outstanding citizens of Squiggly-Wiggly-Ville got a
Continue readingNew Testament Reading—Matthew 9: 9-13 Who was Myles Horton? He was a white Southerner from the Appalachian mountains. He was born in Savannah, Tennessee in 1905. To get by, his
Continue readingIn the late 1990s, the hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican workers catapulted a Long Island town into national headlines, unmasking a new front line in the border wars: suburbia.
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