Not
judging the Master
His
church open
opening
his doors
welcoming
Jesus
all
of our neighbors
into
our presence
communion
with us
Open
to all
fully
inclusive
offering
welcome
community,
unity
to
all of God’s children
all
the people on earth
Reconciling,
healing
open
to blessing
within
diversity
calling
the others
joy,
inclusion
all
God’s people gifted
brought
back to life
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Edited
September 29, 2013
Welcoming
Christ – v6
(editing
version 3)
Edited
September 28, 2013
Welcoming
Christ – v5
(editing
original again)
Edited
September 19, 2013
Welcoming
Christ – v4
(editing
original again)
Edited
September 16, 2013
Welcoming
Christ – v3
Edited
April 23, 2013
“Welcoming
Christ – v2”
after
Austin Masterson
included
the original in a student assignment
Roswell,
NM
June
13, 2011
“Welcoming
Christ”
&
Edited September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy – v2”
new poem September 7, 2013
“Making the secular Holy”
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This poem is about my wife and me when we got married
in a civil service on December 17, 2004 in Concord, NH in
White Park
and then before our church family at
Wesley United Methodist Church in Concord, NH
on April 23, 2005.
----
We celebrate 2 anniversaries because they both mean a
great
deal to us, in very different ways.
I grieve for those who are able to marry civilly in so
many
states now, such as NH, but are unable to marry in their
United Methodists churches and for the clergy who are put
on trial
for choosing to go against the Discipline to marry them.
&
trials
of Rev. Frank Schaefer
and
Rev. Thomas Ogletree
and Rev. Steve Heiss
&
Edited
September 7, 2013
For
Offering Love – v2
June
22, 2011
For Offering Love
Love on Trial,
the case against the Reverend Amy DeLong,
which begins on June 20, 2011
&
John 8:1-11
&
Samuel Thompson’s
Inclusion Essay
shared at the New England United
Methodist Church
Annual Conference
in response to call by Reconciling
Ministries Network
for essays describing, “My vision for an inclusive church”,
June 10, 2011
&
in part inspired by conversations with
the Reverend John Makokha
Riruta UMC
Other Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html
Children of Africa Hope Mission Project in
the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html
&
Matthew 25:31-46
The Sheep and the Goats
&
Matthew 28:18-20
Matthew 28:18-20
Great Commission
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