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Do we have to do all of those to be inclusive? We don't really do flags, but the website says that we are open and affirming, that we are registered for same-sex marriage, and if relevant we will mention in service, but we also want to give time for thinking/focusing on other forms of inclusion.

08.10.2025 22:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Letter of the day (in the Times)

11.08.2025 08:00 — 👍 6277    🔁 2464    💬 125    📌 142

Check it out!
We now have -- The Gospel of Trump.
KDV... King Donald Version.
All the Bible verses that talk about compassion and justice are redacted. Everything about welcoming immigrants, caring for widows and orphans, and loving enemies is gone. There isn't much left. That’s the point.

07.06.2025 16:11 — 👍 24    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 2

3 cubed - The Speechless Sing 3 3   Mistletoe    I thought it was where the crows lived whilst looking across the horizon anticipating...

Updating Speechless Sing with some old poems speechless.blogspirit.com/archive/2025...

25.02.2025 00:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And if the third word seeks hope
might the sound of it encourage

tentative souls to look beyond
fearfulness and light the sky

with fragments of an idea
beginning - perhaps, maybe, if?

#poem #poetry #joinin #imagine #encourage

20.02.2025 11:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pam Gold speaking at a conference of the European Forum of LGBTI+ Christian Groups

THANKS to the Methodist Church for sharing #LGBTplusHistoryMonth resources.
Pam Gold, founder of our Open Table community in Warrington, now Coordinator of the Methodist LGBT+ Solidarity Circle, shares how her life changed once she began actively supporting other LGBT+ Christians: bit.ly/PamGold0225

20.02.2025 09:00 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A translucent rainbow goes from left to right across the image, with the Honest Church logo and words reading "LGBTQ History Month: Honest Church".

The Honest Church campaign was started by SCM in 2022 with one simple aim. We wanted churches to be honest about their welcome of LGBTQ+ people. The purpose of the campaign is not to try to convince churches to be more inclusive, but simply to promote the honesty and openness that will help young people, in particular, to find a church in which they feel comfortable. We believe it’s as important for churches that hold a conservative line on LGBTQ+ relationships to be honest as it is for those that are more progressive.

As part of the campaign we produced resources, including a toolkit to support people who want to ask about a church’s LGBTQ+ welcome but aren’t sure how to open up the conversation. The toolkit suggests questions you may wish to ask, either at your current church or when searching for a church, as well as suggestions for church leaders to improve the current welcome they offer, and how to communicate this more effectively.

In 2023, we joined forces with Women and the Church (WATCH) to expand the campaign to include honesty around women’s roles in church, and in 2024 we ran a pop-up for Disability History Month which focused on honesty around disability access. You can find all the toolkits and more resources on the honest church website at honestchurch.org.uk!

We launched #HonestChurch in Aug 22 to encourage greater honesty about the true welcome that LGBTQ+ people receive in a church. The campaign has grown since then, but the aim remains the same: empower students to find a church where they can thrive, & ask churches to be honest about their beliefs 💒

19.02.2025 17:45 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Used his description of turning the other cheek so often - it brings the text to life.

20.02.2025 07:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

as you wear
the skin you've been given
may you wield
the heart at your core,
may you abide
in the peace of the Spirit
pursuing justice and love
evermore

+theWaybecomesflesh
+kindomcome
#billionprayersforpeace

17.02.2025 21:59 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

When you go Edwin Morgan When you go, if you go, and I should want to die, there's nothing I’d be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.

When you go,
if you go,
and I should want to die,
there’s nothing I’d be saved by
more than the time
you fell asleep in my arms…

—Edwin Morgan, “When You Go” 🫂
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#ValentinesDay #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM25 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

14.02.2025 18:40 — 👍 34    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

Text of poem "For Seamus Heaney"

Enjoyed finding this "For Seamus Heaney" by Elizabeth Jennings

in "Praises" published 1998 by @carcanet.bsky.social
#Poetry #IrishPoets #UKPoets

17.02.2025 14:15 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Bring back the wolf!
He’s not long gone, you know.
He went out when sheep came in.
Sheep cleared men and women.
Now let wolves clear sheep…

—Edwin Morgan, “Wolf”
in VIRTUAL & OTHER REALITIES, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

17.02.2025 14:45 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

If the first word seeks goodness,
what might the second bring?

And if the second is kind
how might we reshape a thing

so that beautiful gifts leap
with joyful, graceful, hope-filling?

#poem

09.02.2025 00:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If the first word seeks goodness - what might the second bring?

08.02.2025 16:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0