Equality and Justice for All We here at St John’s have stood for over 20 years as a pillar of strength and support for the LGBTQ community and their rights.  While the struggle of this community is still ongoing, it would be selfish of us to not speak up for another community of people that is hurting, which include members of our congregation and faith. We stand hand in hand with our brothers and sisters of color in the continued

The wall against LGBTQ persons in the United Methodist Church has begun to come down. This June—following the recent disaster of May when our once-every-four-years General Conference, meeting in Portland, Oregon, kicked the can down the road regarding being an inclusive denomination and the conservative, orthodox delegates won every issue—several Annual Conferences started taking the wall apart, stone by stone. June is the season of “Annual Conferences” in the United Methodist Church. These gatherings of clergy and lay delegates

Yesterday, the UMC Bishop in Kansas announced that efforts at a “Just Resolution” failed and that the Bishop recommended to the Nebraska-Kansas Annual Conference to proceed to a church trial for a pastor. This pastor, Rev. Cynthia Meyer, came out to her Kansas congregation during a January 3rd sermon. The “Just Resolution” is a mediation process for pastors and annual conferences recommended as a grace-filled way of handling church-violation charges against a pastor for being in a same-sex relationship