Your mental health matters and so does your spiritual health. You deserve someone who will welcome you, challenge you, and be there for you in a way that uplifts your soul. Read More
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New Ways Ministry offers the following prayer for individual or communal use for the International Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, 2024. Read More
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Every year, Antonio Pagliarulo makes a pilgrimage to Manhattan's Church of St. Francis of Assisi for its shrine to Fr. Mychal Judge, OFM, a gay Catholic friar who died helping first responders on September 11, 2001—and someone Pagliarulo wants canonized. Read More
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As a gay Catholic, I find the spirituality of a healthy sense of humor perhaps even more essential than my hetero siblings might, and I also learn something ironic from these texts: complaining, within reason, can be a spiritually positive thing. Read More
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Each poem in Gay Girls Prayers is named after a pivotal Biblical passage that recounts the experiences of women and LGBTQ+ individuals during the time of Christ. Read More
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we pray for an end to anti-trans violence, and we take action to make our world safe for God’s transgender children. Read More
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This issue has been a tangled mess for us in the queer segment of the population. Difficulties arise from both the “wall of separation” and from the “inherently intertwined” points of view. Read More
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Was Radcliffe using coded language to describe LGBTQ+ experience? I don’t think so. I think that if he wanted to make a point about LGBTQ+ people, he would have done so much more plainly. Read More
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Though not phrased in these words, the question in Ezekiel has been an undercurrent in the sharings from people ostracized by the institutional church: "Are not your ways unfair?" Read More
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