Words flowing
freely
like rivers of
water
coming to me
quickly
yet bringing me
to my knees
In a cadence of
sadness
thinking of what
is moving
the judgment upon
the shepherds
casting them out
Judging them
wanting
because of their
love
not something of
their choosing
but because of
who they are
The stones of
the judgment
in each of our
hands
yet bound by the
verdict
the poison soon
at hand
Not seeing an
answer
an inexorable
conclusion
seeing them as
martyrs
bearing this
burden as their cross
Before the
church’s resurrection
in a vision and
a polity
of inclusion,
inclusive,
more equal to
our faith
Edited
November 16, 2013
In
a Cadence of Sadness – v2
June
11, 2011
In a Cadence of Sadness
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.
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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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