In October 2018, the long-awaited canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will take place. One ceremony at the Vatican, in Rome, will be presided by the Pope. The other celebration takes place in San Salvador at the Fiesta del Pueblo. Salvadorans from all walks-of-life are gathering to commemorate and honor Archbishop Romero as the first […]
After the Pulse tragedy, I wrote a long Facebook post analyzing the media coverage and Episcopal Church response to the mass shooting. My post was about ways in which LGBTQ+ and Latinx persons had been erased from the narrative given the incessant and one-dimensional focus on the shooter and guns. The reality of who was […]
Joy dares us to live a deep spirit and spirituality. Joy dares us to live justice. Joy takes us out of the folds of the old wounds that make all of us perform unnatural acts like transsexism, sexism, and heterosexism. Joy means creating communities that are bodies of hope and righteousness that spit in the […]
Download PDF of Job Description Here Job title: Project Manager Job description: We are looking for a Latinx Roundtable Project Manager to coordinate a grant-funded project that provides resources for Latinx families with a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender loved one and for LGBT people in the United States and Latin America. The job […]
Greetings Friends and Colleagues, We would like to invite Open & Affirming Congregations of the Bay Area to participate in a first-of-its-kind research project on Open and Affirming faith communities who have made a commitment to affirm lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and welcome them fully into your congregation and ministry. Through […]
Among M.Div. graduates, a new crop of transgender students By Jesse James DeConto | Published May 26, 2016 in Theological Education, Religious News Service Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tenn.; Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Conn., and Union Theological Seminary in New York City have all admitted transgender students. Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, […]
Job title: Project Manager Job description: We are looking for a Latin@ Roundtable Project Manager to coordinate a grant-funded project that provides resources for Latin@ families with a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender loved one and for LGBT people in the United States and Latin America. The job is approximately 10 hours per week from […]