By Joe Pere z Note: Cross-posted at the Integrally Gay Weblog.The day given over to gratitude is the most Homophilic of the holidays, because the act of expressing thanks is one of the most immanent or self-directed of spiritual acts.
As she accepted the 2008 TED PRize, Karen Armstrong called for a Charter for Compassion to restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.
More than 300 conservative Christian protesters picketed a play about a transsexual Jesus recently in Glasgow, Scotland.
I want to give the church a big congratulations for their victory tonight in Maine. Once again, you kept your eyes on the prize and won.
“Noah’s Gay Wedding Cruise” can cheer us up in the face of the Maine election defeat. Gay and lesbian animal couples and celebrities mingle on the ark while anti-gay activists such as Fred Phelps and Ken Starr drown.
“The Master’s tools will never dismantle the Master’s house.” ~ Audre Lourde We lost Maine. Not quite how we lost California; the LGBT community and allies absolutely did their best political organizing and advertising.
The costumes are in full display in every store I see. This week I went to pick up candy for the trick-or-treaters and was reminded of the many times I didn’t look forward to putting on a Halloween costume when.
Gay-Bashing in Queens Reminds Us How Far We Still Have to Go. My friend, Rev. Dr. Mel White (Soulforce.
No matter where I go, I am consistently asked one question from gay and straight people... "How can you be gay and Christian?" I don't believe this is a valid question.
A powerful invocation prayer launched the speeches at the National Equality March Sunday in Washington DC.
Saints Sergius and Bacchus were Roman soldiers, Christian martyrs and gay men who loved each other. They were killed around 303 in present-day Syria.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 — Members of the National Religious Leadership Roundtable, convened by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, will participate at the National Equality March in Washington, D.
Earlier this month, clips of a taped television interview that gospel music sensation Tonex conducted for 'The Lexi Show' (on the Gospel network) surfaced on the Internet and caused a heated frenzy within the black religious industry.
Read Micah Fink's full article on MinnPost.com It takes just 15 minutes to set up an underground church.
Jay Michaelson (Metatronics.net), gay Jewish Spiritual teacher and author of EVERYTHING IS GOD: THE RADICAL PATH OF NONDUAL JUDAISM, has written a call to the "Spiritual But Not Religious" crowd to get serious.
I had the amazing opportunity to attend a pre-screening of the movie, The Horse Boy. It is the true story of a Texas couple and their son’s journey on horseback through Outer Mongolia in an attempt to heal their son’s.
Nine Muslims, in their own words, reveal a creative convergence of Islamic spirituality and American identity that is unfolding, largely unnoticed, in the United States.
Andrew Harvey, contemporary gay mystic, scholar, and author of Son of Man, The Direct Path, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, discusses the Divine, the Shadow, Gay Activism and his newly released book, The Hope: A Guide to Sacred.
Tennessee's Out & About Newspaper reports: A lesbian couple is considering filing assault charges against certain members of a mayoral candidate's Memphis church claiming they were forcefully and unjustly removed from Sunday service.
'Efforts to change sexual orientation are unlikely to be successful and involve some risk of harm." So says a new American Psychological Association report affirmed by its governing body in a 125-to-4 vote.