Our innocence an illusion
a lie to ourselves;
A line in the sand our portion
giving our stones to them.
A decision to be rendered
the charges already made;
Their ministry in the balance
when we cast the first stone.
The judgment of man
our law, not principles;
Finding them unworthy
by their acts of love for others
for being who they are.
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edited July 10, 2015
Giving Them Our Stones – v4
(editing original)
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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