A
decision rendered
a
stain written upon us
the
charges already made
their
ministry in the balance
when
we cast the first stone
Our
innocence an illusion
a
lie only to ourselves
a
line in the sand our portion
giving
our stones to them
The
judgment of man
our
law, not principle
finding
them unworthy
by
their acts of love for others
for
being who they are
Edited
November 23, 2013
Giving
Them Our Stones – v3
(after
conviction of Rev. Frank Schaefer)
&
Edited
November 16, 2013
Giving
Them Our Stones – v2
June
11, 2011
Giving Them Our Stones
&
Edited
November 16, 2013
Throwing
Stones in Our Name – v2”
June
11, 2011
Throwing Stones in Our Name
Edited
November 15, 2013
An
Inclusive Church – v5
(editing
original version again)
Edited
September 8, 2013
An Inclusive Church – v4
Edited
September 1, 2013
An Inclusive Church – v3
Edited
August 28, 2013
An Inclusive Church – v2
June
12, 2011
An Inclusive Church
John 8
&
June
23, 2011
Able
to Breath – unedited
&
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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