A
challenge to us,
members
of the church,
the
cost of our judgment
on
counting their sin
chargeable
offenses
able
to cast the first stone
claiming
our place
better
than theirs
if
we are comfortable
we
should remember Christ’s words,
of
forgiveness, of sacrifice
the
only One justified,
the
One without sin
=====
edited July
15, 2015
if we are
comfortable - 2- v7
(editing
version 5)
edited October
6, 2014
If we are
comfortable – 2 – v6
(editing
original again)
Edited January
1, 2014
If we are
comfortable – 2 – v5
(editing
original again)
after the
conviction and defrocking of Rev. Frank Schaefer, etc.
Edited
September 29, 2013
If we are
comfortable – 2 – v4
(editing
original again)
Edited
September 21, 2013
If we are
comfortable – 2 – v3
(editing
original again)
Edited
September 21, 2013
If we are
comfortable – 2 – v2
June 13, 2011
If we are
comfortable - 2
&
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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