Not
judging the Master
the
Church open
welcoming
Jesus
welcoming
all
into
our presence
Open
to all
all
of God’s people
fully
inclusive
to
all of God’s children
all
over the world
Edited
December 7, 2013
Welcoming
Christ – v10
(editing
original version again)
&
Edited
December 7, 2013
A
time to come together – v5
(editing
original version again)
written
after the conviction of Rev. Frank Schaefer
&
Edited
November 15, 2013
Welcoming
Christ – v9
(editing
original again)
&
“Methodist Pastor Frank Schaefer Faces Trial for Son's
Gay Wedding”
&
Edited
October 19, 2013
Welcoming
Christ – v8
Edited October 6, 2013
Welcoming Christ – v7
Edited
Welcoming Christ – v6
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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