Greetings, Sisters and Brothers of the Heart! Here we are, already into the second month of a new decade, it’s February, and I salute you in “the Name of Love”. I do so because I believe that most agree that love is essential and important and in a perfect world diversity counts and respect ought to be common in community. Community is, after all, the...
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Beloved Friends, We as Believers can sometimes get tired of the constant battle that comes with our faith walk. The good news, however, is that we have been equipped to do battle in order to walk in victory. As we live out our lives here on earth, a genuinely practical and helpful principle for us to consider can be found in The Book of Ecclesiastes [3:1] which reminds us that… “To...
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Beloveds, Moving into the “dog days of summer”, I am thinking of the Victor Hugo quote: “nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” It’s been playing on repeat in my head since leaving TFAM’s Holy Convocation this past July. TFAM is an acronym for “The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries” and their convocation theme...
[Read more...]Happy Golden Anniversary! This year commemorates 50-years since the “Stonewall Uprising” and “we are glad about it!” The spontaneous demonstrations of rebellion that began on the night of June 28, 1969 and continued through the next six days changed the course of “LGBTQIATSNBGNC +” history forever. “Stonewall 50” as it is being called marks an...
[Read more...]Greetings Sisters and Brothers of Faith, Christendom has just celebrated Jesus’ miraculous fete of Resurrection which embodies death’s transforming power of birth out of the death of the old. Sadly, however, America’s present socio-political atmosphere is casting a “Good Friday” vibe. Hatred is flowing uninterrupted. Ideologies that many of us thought were dormant...
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Happy New Year’s Family! As I greet you, I can’t help to acknowledge the backdrop in which we say so long to 2018. The tapestry of that backdrop is comprised of ruthless political conflict; threats of terroristic social division, and the hubris of the country’s leader-in-chief shutting down the government… I recognize that more than a few people may not feel the usual gaiety...
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Good Citizens! America’s democracy appears to be ailing. For aren’t we indisputably witnessing unprecedented attacks by the American Presidency on the media; the judiciary; federal law enforcement; the electoral process; state and local governments; Congress; democratic customs and principles; and civil society to name a few. Daily, the divider in chief, Donald Trump, spits rhetoric that...
[Read more...]Beloved Friends, It is unfortunate that as a culture, America blames its victims. In other words, victims are not to supposed to do, say, or wear anything [i.e., black men fighting back when attacked; or women in short or tight-fitting clothing fighting harder when assaulted] to antagonize or provoke adverse responses in probable predators. More pointedly,...
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Beloveds, Every day each of us is presented a choice of “ME or WE” when we say our prayers; make decisions; establish priorities; or live our lives either as insulated and isolated individuals or as persons connected interdependently with others. In any case, emptiness, derived from of a sense of isolation, frequently becomes a prerequisite for desperation. Desperation in turn happens...
[Read more...]Beloveds, The annual season of “Pride” has come to a close but in place of “afterglow”, which generally follows Pride celebrations, it is the glowing embers of tenuous liberties overcasting the day. This is to say, too many U.S. states are either passing or proposing to pass legislation that wantonly discriminates or abjectly reduce/reverse the civil rights of historically...
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Juli Grey-Owens has been a Long Island and New York State transgender community advocate for over fifteen years. She is the Executive Director of LITAC, the Long Island Transgender Advocacy Coalition, whose mission is to advocate for the transgender, non-binary, and intersex communities. Grey-Owens regularly speaks at public forums about the need for statewide transgender […]
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