Too
long have we remained silent
too
slow to act, to speak out
to stand with them in the breach
to stand with them in the breach
but
now is a time for justice
to say no to power
standing with our sister, our sisters
to say no to power
standing with our sister, our sisters
with
our brothers who have been judged
who
have been charged
under
our law, our code,
a line drawn in the sand
dropping our own stones of judgment
laying them down
seeking reconciliation
not making her, making them, the lamb
a line drawn in the sand
dropping our own stones of judgment
laying them down
seeking reconciliation
not making her, making them, the lamb
----
edited November 17, 2014
Standing with our Sister – v8
Edited October 23,
2013
Standing with our
Sister – v7
Edited October 6,
2013
Standing with our
Sister – v4
(editing original again)
new poem
September 21, 2013
Standing with our
Brothers
Edited September
20, 2013
Standing with our
Sister – v3
(editing original
again)
August 29, 2013
Standing with our
Sister – v2
June 12, 2011 and
June 13, 2011
Standing with our
Sister
June 13, 2011
“Welcoming
Christ”
&
Edited September
7, 2013
“Making the
secular Holy – v2”
new poem
September 7, 2013
“Making the
secular Holy”
----
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
&
John 8
&
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
&
Love on Trial,
the case against the Reverend
Amy DeLong,
which begins on June 20, 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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